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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

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

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

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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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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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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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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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

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that voice was a deathless song.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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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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She knew few words and believed in none.

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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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

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