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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.
Everything that begins, begins with blood.
People living alone get used to loneliness.
I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-
There are no second acts in American lives.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.
Happiness is the relief after extreme tension
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.
I want to do everything in the world with you.
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
How different it all was from what you'd planned.
Don't forget who you are and where you come from.
The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.
It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.
Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.
Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.
You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.
When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.