1. I'm glad it's 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.
The Great Gatsby
Daisy, on her new-born girl.
2. Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed
on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows
and short-winded elations of men.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on Jay Gatsby.
3. 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why
of course you can.'
The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby, on Nick saying that he can't
repeat the past.
4. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember
that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages
that you've had.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on his father's advice.
5. Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he
is alive and not after he is dead.
The Great Gatsby
Meyer Wolfshiem, on Gatsby.
6. There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on Tom Buchanan.
7. I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr.
Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's
the idea you can count me
out.
The Great Gatsby
Tom Buchanan, on Jay Gatsby.
8. They're a rotten crowd....You're worth the whole damn
bunch put together.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on Jay Gatsby.
9. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed
up things and creatures and then retreated back into their
money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept
them together, and let other people clean up the mess they
had made.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on Tom and Daisy Buchanans.
10. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back
ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, on resiliance.
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