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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

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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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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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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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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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