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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

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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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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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