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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. View quote
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. View quote
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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. View quote
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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. View quote
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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. View quote
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The rich get richer and the poor get children. View quote
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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. View quote
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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. View quote
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. View quote
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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. View quote
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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing. View quote
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. View quote
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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. View quote
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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. View quote
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The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby. View quote
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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. View quote
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. View quote
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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad! View quote
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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. View quote
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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. View quote
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. View quote
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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. View quote
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