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Wilbur Wright set the tone in 1909 when he said, “Like all novices we began with the helicopter [in childhood] but soon saw that it had no future and dropped it. The helicopter does with great labor only what the balloon does without labor,
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“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.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“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.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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