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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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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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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

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She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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

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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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