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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

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You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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