If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: great-gatsby
and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: great-gatsby
As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: great-gatsby
Stichwörter: great-gatsby
Who is he anyhow, an actor?"
"No."
"A dentist?"
"...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World Series?" I repeated.
The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened, the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
"How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute.
"He just saw the opportunity."
"Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man.
Stichwörter: baseball great-gatsby black-sox
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: beauty prose great-gatsby everyday-objects great-prose
That's my Middle West - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps, and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that...
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: great-gatsby
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
Baz LuhrmannStichwörter: film script great-gatsby
This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: great-gatsby
Great people especially must be careful about what they worship.
John GreenStichwörter: great-gatsby crash-course
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