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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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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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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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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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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

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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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Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

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