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The Great Gatsby (1925)
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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
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Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
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It makes me sad because I've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
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She's got an indiscreet voice, I remarked. It's full of- I hesitated. Her voice is full of money, he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
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She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
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It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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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.
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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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.
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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
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Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Born:
September 24, 1896
Died:
December 21, 1940
(aged 44)
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