quotes for Gatsby Flashcards

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Gatsby

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‘her voice is full of money’
‘can’t repeat the past? of course you can’
‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future’

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Daisy

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‘I hope she will be a fool - that is the best thing a girl can be in this world - a beautiful little fool’
‘all the bright precious things fade so fast’

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Nick

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‘so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly to the wind’
‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever known’
‘I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity’
‘They were careless people tom and daisy…they smashed things up…and retreated back into their money’

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Tom

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‘its a fine book and everybody ought to read it’ - the rise of the coloured empire
‘I may be old fashioned in my ideas’

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