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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said.…
“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of–” I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money–that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell…
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had…
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on,…
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself…
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal…
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too; Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatred, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”~ Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
“Life is much more successful looked at from a single window.”
“Her husband…a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
“There’s only the pursed, the pursing, the busy and the tired.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
a_pitts
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning - So we beat on,…
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
"You can still see that green light.."
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
ilowelife
Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan, scornful mouth smiled, and so I drew her up again…
nicolajruiz
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does…
2pod
unjustly accused of being