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What he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jay Gatsby), Chapter 5, Page 59“I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jay Gatsby to Daisy), Chapter 5, Page 59“The rich get richer and the poor get – children.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Characters: Nick and Daisy), Chapter 5, Page 60The Great Gatsby Social Class Quotes“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 5, Page 60“His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 5, Page 60“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 6, Page 62“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 6, Page 66“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jay Gatsby), Chapter 6, Page 69The Great Gatsby Past Quotes “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew

The Great Gatsby quotes show the power of love and greed.The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a mysterious wealthy man named Jay Gatsby.Jay Gatsby throws wild parties every Saturday, hoping Daisy, his lost love, will attend.Gatsby is eager to please and impress his neighbor, Nick. But Gatsby has ulterior motives.Nick must balance the rumors about Gatsby with wanting to support his master plan.“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway’s father), Chapter 1, Page 7Nick Carraway Quotes “the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”–it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No–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.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Pages 7, 8“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8“I had that familiar conviction

Every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby and Daisy (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 48“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 49“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 50“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths – so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 50“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 50“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 51“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 5, Page 54“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 5, Page 56“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy and Jay Gatsby (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 5, Page 58“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock.”Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in

Chapter 3, Page 38“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 3, Page 38The Great Gatsby Love Quotes“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jordan Baker (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 3, Page 39“It takes two to make an accident.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jordan Baker), Chapter 3, Page 39“I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway to Jordan Baker) ,Chapter 3, Page 39“…and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jordan Baker (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 3, Page 39“Every one 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.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 3, Page 39“So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 42“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jay Gatsby to Nick Carraway), Chapter 4, Page 43“With fenders spread like wings we scattered light through half Long Island City — only half, for as we twisted among the pillars of the elevated I heard the familiar “jug — jug — SPAT!” of a motorcycle, and a frantic policeman rode alongside. “All right, old sport,” called Gatsby. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man’seyes.“Right you are,” agreed the policeman, tipping his cap. “Know you next time, Mr. Gatsby. Excuse ME!”“What was that?” I inquired.“The picture of Oxford?”“I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Jay Gatsby, a policeman, and Nick Carraway), Chapter 4, Page 44“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Character: Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 4, Page 44“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that