Ocupation: Author
Life: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
Birthday: September 24
Death: December 21
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
source: The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
topic: Successful, Earthquakes, Personality, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important, Thousand Miles