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“I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child.”

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.”

“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”