Quotes Flashcards

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Turned out

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Gatsby turned out alright in the end

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2
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Dust

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Fouk dust floated in the wake of his dreams

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3
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France

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Year in France for no particular reason

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4
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Jordan’s eyes

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Grey sun strained eyes on

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5
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Tj ek

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Eternal blindness

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6
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Nerves

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Never a of her body continually smouldering

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7
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Lonely

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Haunting loneliness

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8
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Jordan lies

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Incurably dishonest

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9
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Clock

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Running down like an overwound clock

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10
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Plato

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Sprang from the platonic conception of himself

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11
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Common

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Common but pretty

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12
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West egg

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Appalled by west egg

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13
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Past lurks

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As if the past were lurking here in the shadow

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14
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Admit love

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You look so cool

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15
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Daisy want

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You want too much

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16
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Retreat

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Further and further into herself

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17
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Myrtle death

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Giving up the tremendous vitality

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18
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Gatsby watches

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Watching over nothing

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19
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God

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God sees everything

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20
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Single dream

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Paid a high price for livin too long with a single dream

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21
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Death

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The holocaust was complete

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22
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After his death

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After gastvys death the east was haunted

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23
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Tom and daisy

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Retreated back into their money and vast carelessness

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24
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Effect of war

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I came back restless

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Gatsby sensitive
Heightened sensitivity
26
Money brings liberty for Tom
Freedom with money
27
Toms life is pointless
Defy on forever seeking a little wistful for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
28
Toms eyes
Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face
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Tom body
A body capable of enormous leverage- a cruel body
30
Tom manly
More of a man than you
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D meeting nick
I’m pparalysed with happiness
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Racism
The dominant race | We’ve got to beat them down
33
Rose
You remind me of a rose an absolute rose
34
Daisy controlling everything
I’ll sort of- oh- fling you together
35
Gatsby god like
Come out to determine what shape was his of our local heavens
36
Green light
I could have sworn he was trembling
37
Tj ek
Look out of no face
38
Valley
Solemn dumping ground
39
Meeting myrtle
Curious to see her... no desire to meet her
40
Myrtle and Wilson
Walking through her husband
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Myrtle looking
Regal homecoming glance
42
Owl eyes
What thoroughness what realism
43
Reality of Gatsby, people don’t know him
He’s just a man named Gatsby
44
new York
Constant flicker of men and women and machines.
45
Devilish
Second cousin to the devil
46
Gatsby family dead
His voice was solemn
47
G worried about view
I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody
48
Wedding hyperbole
Hired a whole floor...gave her a string of pearls
49
D relies of t
She’d look around uneasily
50
D and tvlike Zelda and fitz
They moved with a fast crowd all of them young and rich and wild
51
Gatsby birth
He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour
52
Wonder
He was consumed with wonder at her presence
53
Building himself
To this conception he was faithful to the end
54
Sexist
Women get these notions in their heads
55
Wilson and Tom
There was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well
56
G elusive
Mr nobody from nowhere
57
Tom and daisy together
They weren’t happy... and yet they weren’t unhappy either
58
T and d chat
Conspiring together
59
Tom crushes g
Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against toms hard malice
60
Class difference
Daisy gleaming like silver sage and proud above the hot struggles of the poor
61
D world
Artificial world
62
Early relationship
He had lost that part of it the freshest and the best forever
63
Rose
What a grotesque thing a rose is
64
Wilson reduces
Wilson was reduced to a man deranged by grief
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Dust
He threw dust in your eyes