The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires,

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues,

Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass.”

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the

beauty in the world.

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,”