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"She was appalled by West Egg's raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong."
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". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
Man
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
Ability
"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
Work
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
"I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."
Memory
"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
Success
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
Man
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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