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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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...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and saw death ahead, and were reprieved - and who now wa...more

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I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

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My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to ...more

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

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I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!