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“I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby’s bedroom, a gray, florid man with a hard, empty face - the pioneer debauchee, who during one phase of American life brought back to the Eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.”

“Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.”