The Great Gatsby

"There was nothing to talk about any more."

"No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end."

"So I became one of the crude vineyards."

"What's the use of doing great deeds if people won't know about them?"

"I never loved him the way you love him."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly."

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby came from West Egg, Brooklyn."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the necessities of life."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"We are all fools."

"I was the only one who loved him."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"The only thing that's kept me from being a bum is the fact that I've always been such a hard worker."

"Her voice is full of money."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world."

"The rich are different from you and me."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"The truth is what you make it."

"I've been trying hard not to hurt you, but you have to understand."

"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

"Civilization is a method and not an objective."

"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife."

"You always look so cool. When you're disturbed."