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…

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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Never confuse activity with action

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It appears that every mans insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their...

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most...

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Money doesn't grow on trees.