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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. "You loved me too?" he repeated. "Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."

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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

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I want to be a society vampire, you see.

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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

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Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

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I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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