Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
She was incurably dishonest.
She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet to satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.
It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, October 30, 2009
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