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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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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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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

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I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will ...more

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The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mo...more

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

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I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and w...more

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from...more

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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must ...more