No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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After Gatsbys death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction.
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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