If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: 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 FitzgeraldTags: 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 FitzgeraldTags: great-gatsby
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: wealth france polo richness
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThat's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: illusion
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
F. Scott FitzgeraldHer voice is full of money.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAs we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: love
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: love
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