Великий Гэтсби. Как ночь нежна

Люди зачастую проявляют к пьяным странное уважение сродни почтительному отношению непросвещенных народов к сумасшедшим, - именно уважение, а не страх. Есть нечто внушающее благоговейный трепет в человеке, сорвавшемся с тормозов и способным на все. Разумеется, впоследствии его заставляют заплатить за этот впечатляющий миг превосходства.

Талантливые люди всегда ходят по краю, иначе они не могут, и некоторые не выдерживают, срываются.

There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.

But women marry all their husbands’ talents and naturally, afterwards, are not so impressed with them as they may keep up the pretense of being.

“God, am I like the rest after all?”—So he used to think starting awake at night—“Am I like the rest?”

I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that’s the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.

But I was very busy being mad then, so I didn’t care what he said, when I am very busy being mad I don’t usually care what they say, not if I were a million girls.

They said you were a doctor, but so long as you are a cat it is different.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.