All the bright, precious things fade so fast
and they don’t come back.
The Great Gatsby
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A Letter Found in First Edition Copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’
LiteratureFor Charles T. Scott,
Gatsby was never quite real to me. His original served for a good enough exterior until about the middle of the book he grew thin and I began to fill him with my own emotional life. So he’s synthetic – and that’s one of the flaws in this book.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellerslie, Edgemoore, Delaware, 1927
