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I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

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Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.

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Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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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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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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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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