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Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,

It’s not being prejudiced, Mom said. It’s a matter of accuracy in labeling.

One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees – he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the imcomparable milk of wonder.

Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin in definition.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Life’s too short to worry about what other people think… Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

I love New York on summer afternoons when every one’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it–overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

No jury in this part of the world’s going to say, “We think you’re guilty, but not very,” on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.

لقد كان رجل زوجته لا رجل نفسه.

That’s my Middle West – not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps, and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that…

I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it? The way you tell it, it is.

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.

Почти всички хора са добри, Скаут, когато най-после ги видиш.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another

If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.

The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways…

الكتاب المُقدّس يكون أحياناً في يد شخص ما أسوأ من زجاجة ويسكي .. !

Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush-hush experiments!

The notion originated with Daisy’s suggestion that we hire five bath-rooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as a place to have a mint julep. Each of us said over and over that it was a crazy idea.—we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny…