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the great gatsby
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'they were
careless
people, Tom and
Daisy'
-
Daisy
'they're such
beautiful
shirts' - Daisy
'I'm
p-paralyzed
with
happiness'
- Daisy
'i hope she'll be a
fool
- that's the
best
thing a
girl
can be in this world, a
beautiful
little
fool.'
- Daisy
'I am
one
of the few honest people I have ever known' -
Nick
'so we
beat
on, boats against the current,
borne ceaselessly
into the past' - Nick
'there are only the
pursued
, the
pursuing
, the
busy
, and the
tired'
- Nick
'old sport'
- Gatsby
'his count of
enchanted objects
had
diminished by one'
-
Gatsby
'he was
running down
like an
overwound clock'
- Gatsby
'the
white race
- will be utterly
submerged'
- Tom
'mr nobody from nowhere'
- Tom about Gatsby
'a
blond
,
spiritless
man,
anaemic
, and
faintly handsome'
- Wilson
'a
white ashen dust veiled
his
dark suit'
- Wilson
'there was an
immediately perceptible vitality
about her' -
myrtle
'she had changed her dress to a
brown figured muslin
which
stretched tight
over her rather
wide hips'
-
Myrtle
'like a young cadet'
-
Jordan
'too wise to carry well-forgotten
dreams
from age to age' -
Jordan
'a
small
flat-nosed jew' -
Wolfsheim
'i raised him up out of
nothing'
-
Wolfsheim
about
Gatsby
'a cruel body'
- Nick on Tom
'two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon'
- Nick on
Daisy
and Jordan
'the
white race
will be - will be utterly
submerged'
- Tom
'i'm
pretty cynical
about everything' -
Daisy
'as she expanded the room
grew smaller
around her' - Nick on
Myrtle
'she was
incurably dishonest'
-
Jordan
'even gatsby
could happen, without any particular wonder' - nick
'his count of
enchanted
objects had
diminished
by one'
'her voice is full of money'
- Gatsby about
Daisy
'an oxford man
!'
'like hell
he is! he wears a
pink
suit'
'god
sees
everything'
- Wilson looking at
Dr T.J. Eckleburg's
eyes