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I found something! Courage
just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

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

That's a great expression of yours, isn't it?" said Tom sharply. "What is?" "All this 'old sport' business. Where'd you pick that up?

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

I'll tell you God's truth. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.

The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men.

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

Was everyone followed in the moonlight?

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

I can never judge a man while he's talking

She was incurably dishonest.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

My own face had now assumed a deep tropical burn.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you
it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

She yawned gracefully in my face.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

You once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

We'll meet you on some corner. I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes.

How do you do, Captain, she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a mystery!

Human sympathy has its limits.

Oh, the enormous conceit of the man!

Which are you?" "I'm feline. So are you. So are most Southern men an' most of these girls

You used to be entertaining before you started to write.

Bright unused beauty still plaugued her in the mirror.

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die.

I used to wonder why they kept princesses in towers

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable again.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having

he was safe in here from all the threat of life...

It takes two to make an accident.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Personality is a series of unbroken gestures.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all ...

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

It always astonishes me when anybody does anything

You like to help everybody, don't you?
I only pretend to.

I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Compromising with events time moves along.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Life begins again when it gets crisp in the fall.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

The price for his intactness was incompleteness.

Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely A man can be twice young In the life of his sons only.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

She was beautiful
but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away.