Цитаты из книги «Великий Гэтсби / The Great Gatsby»

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…

You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

e was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner

was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious mann

a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.