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1920s
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An air of malaise had spread through Café Society and quite acutely in her coterie, friends impatient to find their way to the lightness, their place in the sun. The Great Depression cast shadows on the city. The roar of the Twenties had quieted to a soulful cry of the blues.
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― Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
― Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
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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.
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― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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