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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Action is character.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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

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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

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

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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

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