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Originally Posted by fresnelly
I can't remember it now but in the Great Gatsby there was a quote about taking the dancefloor and sunlight on their feet that stopped me cold.
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F Scott is my favorite author and of course Gatsby is my favorite book (probably have read it some 50 times and every time pick up something new.)
That said my favorite quote, which is the very last line of the book:
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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There's the first sentences which I am enthralled with and have since reading it the first time, tried to remember it and live by these words:
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
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And probably the best part of the book:
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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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