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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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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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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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