Ah, " she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool, " she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Tom Buchanan, a character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, is a rich and powerful man who has been described as “an incarnation of malevolent ugliness.” He pursues Daisy Buchanan relentlessly. When he first sees her on the lawn at West Egg, she is reclining on a chaise longue, reading a book. For a moment Tom feels a kinship with this beautiful girl, but then he realizes that she is reading a book and does not know who he is. In this quote from The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan says to Tom Buchanan "You always look so cool" when they first meet.

This means an attractive person will have more admirers than they can count. This also means attractive people will have many people who want to be with them, so the most important thing in their life is being attractive.

Source: The Great Gatsby

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