Top 10 Flashcards
What foul…
What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
Life is…
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window after all
I was within…
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life
On Sunday morning…
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages along shore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.
I had no girl…
I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs
The rock of…
The rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing
…of a grail
He had committed himself to the following of a grail
Gatsby believed…
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us
A fresh green…
A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees…had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams
So we beat…
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
