TGG quotes Flashcards

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He was the single most hopeful person I’ve ever met

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Wall street was luring the young and ambitious and I was one of them

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The golden girl… she was the most frightening face I’d ever seen but I enjoyed looking at her

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This house and everything in it are all part of an elaborate disguise

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Rich girls don’t marry poor boys

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sorry to keep her from you, old sport

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he’s a gambler. He’s a very smart man

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I’ve aways been told to see the best in people… I’m inclined to reserve all judgment… but even I have a limit

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…beyond the walls of the colossal castle

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The Valley of ashes was a grotesque place

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New York’s dumping ground… with the burnt-out coal that powered the booming golden city.

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This fantastic farm was watched by Dr TJ Eckleburg, whose eyes brooded over all like the eyes of God

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Neither of them like who they’re married to, George Wilson is a greasy little scumbag

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I awoke with a distinctly uneasy feeling that Gatsby was watching me

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I realized I knew nothing about Gatsby

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I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding

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If it wasn’t for the mist we could see the green light

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Now it was once again just a green light on a dock and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one

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If only it’d been enough for Gatsby just to hold Daisy but he had a grand vision for his life and Daisy’s part in it

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You know most of these rich people are just filthy bootleggers

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of course, if anything is not to your liking, I’ll change it

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I could care less about the parties… I’ve gotten all these things for her

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He talked a lot about the past as if he could recover something

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of course, you can [repeat the past]

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Five years ago his uniform hid the truth that he was a penniless young man

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I’ve always known that I could climb but I could only climb if I was alone

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she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete

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I just need more time old sport

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I changed my mind your brute

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Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic… his mistress and wife an hour ago so secure, were both slipping from his control

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You ask too much Jay. Isn’t that enough for you?

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The only respectable thing about you old sport is your money. We’re different from you. It’s in our blood

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With every word Daisy was drawing further and further into herself

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They were careless people Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and people and then retreated back to their money and vast carelessness

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My one golden shimmering mirage, now made me sick

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While [Gatsby] stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream

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His dream must have been so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it, but he did not know that it was already behind him

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us

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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning, so we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly against the past.

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