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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

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

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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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