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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

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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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Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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