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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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She was incurably dishonest.

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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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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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These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

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

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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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No one should live beyond 30.

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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