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“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Nick Carraway
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
Nick Carraway
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction.”
Nick Carraway
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”
Nick Carraway
“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.”
Nick Carraway
“There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
Nick Carraway
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Nick Carraway
“They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
Nick Carraway
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Nick Carraway
“Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
Jay Gatsby
“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before.”
Jay Gatsby
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at.”
Nick Carraway (about Gatsby)
“Her voice is full of money.”
Jay Gatsby
“Old sport.”
Jay Gatsby
“It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it.”
Jay Gatsby
“She never loved you, do you hear?”
Jay Gatsby
“Your wife doesn’t love you… She’s never loved you. She loves me.”
Jay Gatsby
“I don’t want to trouble you… but if you’d just ask Daisy to…”
Jay Gatsby
“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way.”
Nick Carraway (about Gatsby)
“He believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”
Nick Carraway (about Gatsby)
“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.”
Daisy Buchanan
“That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen of a—”
Daisy Buchanan
“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Daisy Buchanan
“Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated!”
Daisy Buchanan
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?… and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
Daisy Buchanan
“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?”
Daisy Buchanan
“You look so cool.”
Daisy Buchanan
“I did love him once—but I loved you too.”
Daisy Buchanan
“You resemble the advertisement of the man.”
Daisy Buchanan
“Oh, you want too much!”
Daisy Buchanan
“Civilization’s going to pieces.”
Tom Buchanan
“Have you read ‘The Rise of the Coloured Empires’ by this man Goddard?”
Tom Buchanan
“It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out…”
Tom Buchanan
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”
Tom Buchanan
“I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.”
Tom Buchanan
“You’re crazy!”
Tom Buchanan
“What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house?”
Tom Buchanan
“Who is this Gatsby anyhow? Some big bootlegger?”
Tom Buchanan
“I told that boy about the ice.”
Tom Buchanan
“There are things between Daisy and me that you’ll never know.”
Tom Buchanan
“You must know Gatsby.”
Jordan Baker
“I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”
Jordan Baker
“It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
Nick Carraway (about Jordan)
“I’m absolutely in training.”
Jordan Baker
“He’s got some woman in New York.”
Jordan Baker
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.”
Myrtle Wilson
“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
Myrtle Wilson
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!”
Myrtle Wilson
“It’s just a crazy old thing.”
Myrtle Wilson
“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing.”
George Wilson
“You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”
George Wilson
“I’m sick… I’ve been sick all day.”
George Wilson
“He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”
Meyer Wolfsheim (described by Gatsby)
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
