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And, after boasting this way o...

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reactionЂ'Gatsby,

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He wanted to appear suddenly t...

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mis...

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable .

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It's just because I love the p...

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

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Experience is the name so many...

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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Cut out all these exclamation ...

Cut out all these exclamation jokes. An explanation point is like laughing at your own joke. I'm going to delete you from my contacts if you keep sending solely emoji texts. You're a grown-ass man.

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Every author ought to write ev...

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

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Understand now, I'm purely a f...

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 as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

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I couldn't forgive him or like...

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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It understood you just as far ...

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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You seem to take things so per...

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. 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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It was strange to have no self...

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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This is what I think now: that...

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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Your first most typical figure...

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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I don't much care where I am a...

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

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So there was not an 'I' anym...

So there was not an 'I' anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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Premature success gives one an...

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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I just couldn't make the grade...

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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The two basic stories of all t...

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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Fairies: Nature's attempt to g...

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....