So we beat on, boats against the current.
I hadn’t the faintest idea what ‘this matter’ was, but I was more annoyed than interested.
He lit Daisy’s cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
I’m tres old and tres bored, Tom,” said Amory one day, stretching himself at ease in the comfortable window-seat. He always felt most natural in a recumbent position.
Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.
Era uno di quei rari sorrisi dotati di un’eterna rassicurazione, uno di quelli in cui t’imbatti quattro o cinque volte al massimo nella vita.
I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.
He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.
Mrs. Gilbert added flavor to his adventure by being impressed with his courage in braving the harsh air.
Oh, it’s so hard to write you what I really feel when I think about you so much; you’ve gotten to mean to me a dream that I can’t put on paper any more.
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.
But the army – let me see – well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man – it used to worry me before.
Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.
It had been a gay party and different stages of sobriety were represented.
Rosalind: Cecelia, darling, you don’t know what a trial it is to be like me. I’ve got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. If I laugh hard from a front row in the theatre, the comedian plays to me for the rest of the evening. If I drop my voice, my eyes, my handkerchief at a dance, my partner calls me up on the phone every day for a week.
You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I?
But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.
Everything was hallowed by the haze of his own youth.
Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.
Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?