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| It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. | | Uncategorized | |
| It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. | | Cute friendship | |
| Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nick, on the Buchanans: "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" | | Uncategorized | |
| No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. | | Ideas | |
| No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. | | Luck | |
| Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. | | Uncategorized | |
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| So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe | | Uncategorized | |
| The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | | Ability; Intelligence; Testing | |
