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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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All things come to him who mates.

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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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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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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