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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

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

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What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

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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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You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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