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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

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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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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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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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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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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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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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