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Marjo
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by M.J. Putney
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in November 2011
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"Was the "breaking up the main couple for the sake of drama" bit as irritating a decade ago? I honestly can't remember. Now all I can think is how I would have written that plot line." — Feb 04, 2024 03:27PM
"Was the "breaking up the main couple for the sake of drama" bit as irritating a decade ago? I honestly can't remember. Now all I can think is how I would have written that plot line." — Feb 04, 2024 03:27PM
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
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