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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

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No one should live beyond 30.

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You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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A writer wastes nothing.

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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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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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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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

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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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