QUOTES Flashcards
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- it was an
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extraordinary gift for hope
2
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- what foul dust
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floated in the wake of his dreams
3
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- it was a factual imitation of some
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hotel de ville in Normandy
4
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- it was a body capable of enormous leverage
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- a cruel body
5
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- it was the kind of voice
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that the ear follows up and down
6
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1.Gatsby?
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what Gatsby?
7
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- the best thing a girl can be in this world
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a beautiful little fool
8
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- his hands in his pockets
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regarding the silver pepper of the stars
9
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- he stretched out his arm
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towards the dark water
10
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- a single green light…
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at the end of a dock
11
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- where ashes take the forms of
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houses and chimneys and rising smoke
12
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- the eyes of
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Doctor T.J Eckleberg
13
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- walking through her husband
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as if he were a ghost
14
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- she bought a copy of
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town tattle
15
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- i want to get
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one of those dogs
16
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- a small living room, a small dining room
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a small bedroom and a bath
17
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- i was within and without
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simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life
18
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- making a short deft movement
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Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand
19
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- men and girls came and went like
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moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars
20
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- i believe that on the first night i went to Gatsby’s house
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i was one of the only few people invited
21
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- it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance
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in it that you come across four or five times in life
22
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- Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps
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and looking from one group to another with approving eyes
23
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- but no one swooned backwards on Gatsby
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and no french bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder
24
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- a sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors
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endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host
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3. i felt a haunting loneliness
sometimes, and felt it in others
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3. young clerks in the dusk
wasting the most poignant moments of night and life
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3. i am one of
the few honest people that i have ever known
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4. i didn’t want you to think
i was just some nobody
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4. he came alive to me, delivered
suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour
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4. he had waited for five years
and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths
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4. there are only the pursued, the persuing
the busy, and the tired
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5. the rain cooled about
half past three to a damp mist
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5. the exhilarating ripple of her voice was
a wild tonic in the rain
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5. Gatsby, as pale as death…
standing in a puddle of water
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5. he literally
glowed
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5. i want you and daisy to come back to my house
i’d like to show her around
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5. he was running down like
an overwound clock
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5. it makes me sad because
i’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before
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5. you always have a green light
that burns all night at the end of your dock
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5. possibly it had occurred to him
that the colossal significance of the light had now vanished forever
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5. his count of enchanted objects
had diminished by one
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5. there must have been a moment
even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams
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5. no amount of freshness can
challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart
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6. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island
sprang from his platonic conception of himself
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6. the unreality
of reality
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6. a promise that the rock of the world
was founded securely on a fairy’s wing
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6. she saw something awful
in the very simplicity she failed to understand
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6. can’t repeat the past?
why of course you can
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6. he could climb to it, if he climbed alone
and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder
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6. his mind would never
romp again like the mind of God
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7. the next day was broiling
almost the last, certainly the warmest, day of summer
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7. afterwards he kept looking at the child with surprise.
i do r think he ever really believed in its existence anymore
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7. her voice is
full of money
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7. his wife and mistress, until an hour ago
secure and inviolate, were slipping from his control
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7. the latest thing is to sit back and let
Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife
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7. Your wife doesn’t love you
Shes never loved you, she loves me
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7. i did love him once
but i love you too
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7. the words seem to physically
bite into Gatsby
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7. her life violently extinguished
knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust
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7. they weren’t happy…
yet they weren’t unhappy either
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7. so i walk away and left him
standing there in the moonlight, watching over nothing
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8. there was an inexplicable
amount of dust everywhere
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8. they’re a rotten crowd
you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together
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8. paid a high price
for living too long with a single dream
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8. shivered as he found out what
a grotesque thing a rose is
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8. ashen figure
gliding towards him through the amorphous trees
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9. i find myself on
Gatsby’s side, and alone
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9. if he’d lived
he’d of been a great man
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9. i raised him out of nothing
right out of the gutter
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9. they were careless people, Tom and Daisy-
they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money
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9. He did not know
that it was already behind him
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9. Gatsby believed in the green light
the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us
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9. so we beat on
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
