The Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards

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Gatsby quote about the past.

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“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.”

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Gatsby rumour quotes.

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“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once,”
“He’s a bootlegger.”
“he was a German spy during the war.”

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Gatsby soldier quote.

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“A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war.”

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Gatsby end quote.

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“Gatsby turned out all right at the end”

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Gatsby war quote.

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“He did extraordinarily well in the war.”

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Gatsby dream quote.

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“paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”

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Gatsby personality quote.

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“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

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Gatsby lying quote.

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“I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.”

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Gatsby revalue quote.

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“I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”

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Gatsby quote about his parents.

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“I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west”

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Nick quote about Gatsby.

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“Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”

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Nick quote about the guests.

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“I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.”

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Nick quote about life.

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“I was without and within, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

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Nick quote about race.

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“a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes.”

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Nick quote about honesty.

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“I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.”

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Nick quote about love.

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“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

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Daisy quote about her daughter.

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“I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world , a beautiful fool.”

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Nick about the world.

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“I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention for ever”

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Daisy description quote.

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“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth.”

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Daisy pressure quote.

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“She was feeling the pressure of the world”

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Daisy life quote.

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“She wanted her life shaped now, immediately”

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Daisy quote about shirts.

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“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.”

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Tom quote about race.

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“The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be - will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff, it’s been proved.”

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Tom violence quote.

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“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”

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Wolfsheim description quote.

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“A small, flat-nosed Jew.”

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Wolfsheim quote about Gatsby.

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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

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Wolfsheim description quote.

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“His nostrils turned to me in an interested way.”

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Wolfsheim gambler quote.

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“he’s a gambler”

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Wolfsheim fixed quote.

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“He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”

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Wolfsheim opportunity quote.

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“He just saw the opportunity.”

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Myrtle quote about George.

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“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman…I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”

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Owl Eyes description quote.

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“A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles”

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West Egg description quote.

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“I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two,”

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East Egg description quote.

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“The white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water”