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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.

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It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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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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She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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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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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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