“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."
"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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