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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen ...more

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I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots ...more

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Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he ...more

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That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

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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 a...more

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One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions th...more

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Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

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Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....T...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you i...more

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Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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

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Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays...more

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The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on th...more

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The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

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It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?'...more

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a ...more

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