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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby Quotes)

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Source:(Charels Scribner's Sons, ed. 1925), Chapter 3, Page 69
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  • Book: The Great Gatsby
  • Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Genre: Classics, Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1925
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