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Ashleigh: -Oh my God, you're Francisco Vega!
Francisco Vega: -Is that good or bad?
Ashleigh: -My roommate thinks you're the best thing to come along since the morning-after pill.
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Terry: Time flies.
Gatsby Welles: Yes, unfortunately, it flies coach.
Terry: What's that supposed to mean?
Gatsby Welles: It's not always a comfortable trip.
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Gatsby Welles: One thing about New York City. You are here or you are nowhere. You cannot achieve another level of anxiety, hostility or paranoia anywhere else.
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Roland Pollard: [during his interview with a clueless college reporter] Would you like a scoop?
Ashleigh: [hesitantly] Of what?
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Gatsby Welles: I need a carbon monoxide to survive.
Ashleigh Enright: What are you talking about?
Gatsby Welles: We are two different creatures, right? You like the sound of crickets and I like the rattle of the taxies. You blosom in the sun and me, I come into my own under grey skies.
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Chan Tyrell: Listen, Gatsby, let me tell you, you only live once. But once is enough if you find the right person.
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Gatsby Welles: I read. I just don't read what they give us in school. I mean, do I really care who wins between Beowulf and Grendel? No, I don't. Maybe if I had a little money on it.
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Chan Tyrell: Real life is fine for people who can't do any better.
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Ashleigh Enright: You're a free creative spirit, like Van Gough, Rothko or Virginia Wolf. Of course, they all committed suicide.
Roland Pollard: It's a very sweet thing to say, Ashleigh.
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Gatsby Welles: It's rich housewives who have the leisure to pursue esoteric culture. The out of work, discussing the out of print.
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[last lines]
Gatsby: How did I know you'd be here?
Chan: You didn't think I was going to blow this moment did you?
Gatsby: What about the skin doctor?
Chan: Very handsome. Very Rich, and very clever, but I'm here.
Gatsby: For a kisser, there's a maximum of an eight?
Chan: It's fall. By spring I'll have you up to ten.
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Ashleigh: I shouldn't imbibe so copiously. Alcohol plays havoc on my cerebral neurons .
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