So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The author of the quote, Kazuo Ishiguro, is a British novelist and short story writer. He was born in Japan and raised in the United Kingdom. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. This short story is about a man who has moved to England from Japan. The narrator feels as if he’s left his home behind him, but he decides to return to it due to his regretful feelings of leaving it behind.

Source: The Great Gatsby

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