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“So we drove on toward death in the cooling twilight.”
“"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally.”
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
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“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“That any one should care in this heat whose flushed lips he kissed, whose head made damp the pajama pocket over his heart!”
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“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
“All right.[…] 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.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone."”
“On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.”
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.”
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“Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. “God sees everything,” repeated Wilson.”
“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.”
“"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."”