The Great Gatsby -- Quotes

Question 1

As my father snobbishly suggested… (Nick)

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and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth

Question 2

Gatsby, who represented (Nick)…

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everything for which I have unaffected scorn

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Extraordinary… (Nick)

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gift for hope

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West egg… (Nick)

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the less fashionable of the two

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white palaces…

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of fashionable east egg

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silver

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idols

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He was a sturdy straw haired man… (about Tom)

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with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner

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Her face was… (About daisy)

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sad and lovely with bright things in it

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there was an excitement in her voice… (about daisy)

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that men who cared for her found difficult to forget

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do they miss me?… (daisy)

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how gorgeous (after Nick tells her they do)

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Do you always watch…(daisy)

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for the longest day and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day and then miss it

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then the glow… (Ab. Daisy)

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faded, each light deserting her face with lingering regret

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I turned my head away and wept… (Daisy)

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“Im glad its a girl, and I hope she’ll be a fool –That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”

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Tom was… (Daisy)

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God knows where

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fifth guest’s

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shrill metallic urgency

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distinguished nothing ….

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except a single green light

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This is a valley…

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of ashes

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ash grey men…

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who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air

Question 19

He was a blond (About Wilson)

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spiritless man.. when he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprung into his eyes

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the eyes of Dr. T J Eckleburg…

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blue and gigantic

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furniture…

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entirely too large for it … over-enlarged

Question 22

“Neither of them can stand… (Catherine)

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the person they’re married to”

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I was a little shocked…

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at the elaborateness of the lie (daisy being catholic)

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yellow windows must have contributed….

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to their share of human secrecy

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I was within…

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and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

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“All I kept thinking was…(Myrtle)

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you can’t live forever, you can’tDiso live forever”

Question 27

Men and girls…

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came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars

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i’ll be

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he’s killed a man

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romantic

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speculation

Question 30

it was one of those rare smiles…

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you may come across four or five times in your life

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I like large parties (JOrdan)

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they’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy

Question 32

Dishonestly in a woman is something…

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you never blame deeply

Question 33

Gatsby’s very careful about women… (Wolfsheim)

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he would never so much look at a friend’s wife.

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She married Tom Buchanan… (Jordan)

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with more pomp and circumstance than louisville ever knew before

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“it makes me sad… (Daisy)

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because i’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before

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possibly it had occurred to him that…

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the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever… and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one

Question 37

There must have been moments even that afternoon…

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when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion

Question 38

That voice (daisy’s)

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was a deathless song

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He was a…

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son of God

Question 40

he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby…

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that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful till the end.

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Cant repeat the past? (Gatsby…)

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why of course you can

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his mind would never romp again…

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like the mind of god

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he kept looking at the child with surprise…

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I dont think he had ever really believed in its existence before

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Her voice is…

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full of money

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That was the inexhaustible charm…

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that rose and fell in it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl

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so we drove on…

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towards death through the cooling twilight

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the mouth was wide open…

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as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long

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watching over…

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nothing (daisy’s house)

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they’re a rotten crowd…

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you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together

Question 50

“you may fool me but you can’t fool God… (Wilson)

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“god sees everything” (looking at the eyes of Dr T j Eckleburg)

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paid a high price…

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for living too long with a single dream

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Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass…

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and the holocaust was complete

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but it wasnt any use…

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nobody came

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his dream must have seemed so close …

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that he could hardly fail to grasp it, he did not know that it was already behind him

Question 55

Gatsby believed in the green light..

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the orgastic future that year by year recedes us, it eluded us then but that’s no matter

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so we beat on, boats against the current….

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borne back, ceaselessly into the past.