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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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We all must try to be good.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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