“Open the whisky, Tom,' she ordered, 'and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself... Look at the mint!”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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