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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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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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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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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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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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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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