“Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. ”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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