Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes - Page 2

• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Loneliness, Men

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Shirts, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Oldcastle Books

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• For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Lasts, Faces

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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