The Great Gatsby

Book · 6 characters · 391 quotes · 1920

Quotes from The Great Gatsby

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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Nick Carraway Hope
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"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby Dreams
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"His heart was in a constant, turbulent riot."
Nick Carraway
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"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
Nick Carraway Truth
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"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
Nick Carraway Hope
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
Nick Carraway Money
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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
Nick Carraway Life
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"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy Buchanan Wisdom
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"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Jay Gatsby Friendship
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway Time
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"What's the use of that suit unless it will take you where you want to go?"
Tom Buchanan Success
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"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
Nick Carraway Relationships
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"So it happens sometimes, a man or woman cracks up just from the simple virtue of some irresistible charm."
Nick Carraway Strength
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"I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever."
Nick Carraway
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"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."
Nick Carraway Truth
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
Nick Carraway Money
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"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
Nick Carraway Life
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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
Nick Carraway Dreams
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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
Nick Carraway Philosophy
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"The past cannot be repeated. The future can only be created."
Jay Gatsby Time
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"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
Nick Carraway Wisdom
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"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy Buchanan Wisdom
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"Her voice is full of money."
Jay Gatsby Money
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"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Jay Gatsby Relationships
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway Philosophy
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"I will miss you dreadfully."
Daisy Buchanan Relationships
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"I am no more light than the moon."
Jay Gatsby
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"Her husband and her lover!"
Tom Buchanan
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"I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."
Tom Buchanan Adventure
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"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world."
Daisy Buchanan Philosophy