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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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I want to do everything in the world with you.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

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Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

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