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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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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy.

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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

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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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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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Murder your darlings.

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You can stroke people with words.

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