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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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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 courte...more

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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small repti...more

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Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at ...more

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged i...more

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, an...more

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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 could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

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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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Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

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In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, d...more

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

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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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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