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Quotations for The Great Gatsby

• "I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. . . You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow. . . And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. "

• "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. "

• "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. "

• "Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. "

• "He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. . . I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried. . . all afternoon. "

• "…what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men. "

• "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. "

• "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. "

• "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. "

• They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

• He snatched the book away from me and replaced it hastily on the shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was likely to collapse.

• He smiled understandingly… It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in a life.