I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald Modern

The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

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1925

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Strange & Unusual

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