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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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Action is character.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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We all must try to be good.

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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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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

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