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"Whenever you feel like criticizing any
one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the
advantages that you've had."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Ch.
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"what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
short-winded elations of men."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Ch.
1
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"seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic
turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."
- F. Scott
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
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"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the
year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss
it."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
"Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to
be a terrible pessimist about things... The idea is if we don't look out the white
race will be--will be utterly submerged... It's up to us, who are the
dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of
things."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
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"I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a
girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool... You see, I think
everything's terrible anyhow... And I know. I've been everywhere and seen
everything and done everything."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby, Ch.
1
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"All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope
she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
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"a single green light, minute and faraway, that
might have been the end of a dock."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby, Ch.
1
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"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm
where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;
where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and,
finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already
crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls
along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and
immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an
impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your
sight."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
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"He thinks she goes to see her sister in New
York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
- F. Scott
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
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¥ "I married him because I thought
he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't
fit to lick my shoe."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
¥ "He borrowed somebody's best
suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it
one day when he was out... I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried...
all afternoon."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
¥ "I wanted to get out and walk
eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go
I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if
with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows
must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the
darkening streets... I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and
without."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
¥ "I believe that on the first
night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually
been invited. People were not invited--they went there."
- F. Scott
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
¥ "I've been drunk for about a
week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
¥ "It's a triumph. What
thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too--didn't cut the pages. But
what do you want? What do you expect?'"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby, Ch.
3
¥ "He smiled understandingly-much
more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of
eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then
concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood
you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like
to believe in yourself."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
¥ "I felt a haunting loneliness
sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most
poignant moments of night and life."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby, Ch.
3
¥ "It takes two to make an
accident."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
¥ "Everyone suspects himself of at
least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest
people that I have ever known."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Ch. 3