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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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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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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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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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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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

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It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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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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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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