“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― 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
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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