“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes

Source: "Private Clubs and the Sour Pleasures of Resentment" https://www.theepochtimes.com/private-clubs-and-the-sour-pleasures-of-resentment_3956322.html, The Epoch Times (August 19, 2021).

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend

Source: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255

"Sir W. Churchill on 'a great Englishman'", The Times, 5 November 1953, p. 5
Winston Churchill's remarks on unveiling a bust of Bevin in the Foreign Office.