Chapter 6 and 7 quotes Flashcards
‘James Gatz…
… that was really or at least legally, his name. He had changed it the moment he turned 17’
‘By God…
… I may be old fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish’
‘A lot of these…
… newly rich people are just big bootleggers you know’
‘Can’t repeat…
… the past? Why of course you can’
‘It occurred to me…
… that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well’
‘So we drove…
… on toward death through the cooling twilight’
‘They saw that…
… her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for a heart underneath’
‘They weren’t happy…
… yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would’ve said that they were conspiring together’
