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.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

I was too absorbed to be responsive