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“Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I have long known you to be the worst sort of villain.”
― A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
― A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
“They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening, too, would be over and casually put away. It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“None of the gentlemen ever want to discuss these matters; all they talk about is the weather, the size of the last fish they caught, and how much carriage traffic they encountered on their way to the ball.”
― A Terribly Nasty Business
― A Terribly Nasty Business
“Harry,' said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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