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Quote
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Character
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Chapter
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“Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”
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Nick’s father
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1
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“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 inequally at birth”
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Nick
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1
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“My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations”
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Nick
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1
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“I had no sight into Daisy’s heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game”
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Nick
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1
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“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water... I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily, I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”
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Nick
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1
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“He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.”
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Nick
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4
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“I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart”
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Nick
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4
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“He was never quite still, there was always a tapping of a foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.”
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Nick
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4
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“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide on more practical measures to be taken”
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Nick
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6
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“And the holocaust was complete”
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Nick
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8
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“’He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man but he had a lot of brain power here... If he’d have lived, he’d have been a great man... He’d have helped build this country.”’
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Gatsby’s father
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9
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“He always had some resolves like this or something.
Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind?”
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Gatsby’s father
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9
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“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.
He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
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Nick
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9
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