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

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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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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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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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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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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