“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”
― The Great Gatsby
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”
― The Great Gatsby
“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“I feared so-you're sentimental. You're not like me. I'm a romantic little materialist."
"I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
"I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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