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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Notes) QUOTES

F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Notes) QUOTES

1 " It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. "

― Harold Bloom , F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Notes)

2 " There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. "

― Harold Bloom , F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Notes)

3 " At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. "

― Harold Bloom , F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Notes)