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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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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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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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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

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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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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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