“He thought of how when you went out and listened to what people said, you heard all kinds of things, people washing their dirty linen in public, talking about friends and business and,gash, and it made him think how the… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
“He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.” — James T. Farrell Copy Share
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large… — James T. Farrell Copy Share
“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.” — James T. Farrell Copy Share
“He thought of how when you went out and listened to what people said, you heard all kinds of things, people washing their dirty… — James T. Farrell Copy Share
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. — James T. Farrell Copy Share
“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was… — James T. Farrell Copy Share
“He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.” — James T. Farrell Copy Share
“So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for… — James T. Farrell Copy Share