“In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me”
“I could have sworn he was trembling, and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”
“The eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleberg: “dimmed a little by many paint-less days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”
“It's just a crazy old thing, I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like”
”I've got to make a list of all the things I need to get. A massage, a wave and a collar for the dog”
“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
“ A stout, middle aged man with enormous spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk at the edge of a great table”
“What thoroughness! What realism!”
“I liked to walk Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women.”
“I felt hauntingly lonely sometimes”
“He hurried the phrase “educated at Oxford,” or swallowed it or choked on it, as if it had bothered him before”
“Tell em Daisy's change' her mine. Say: Daisy's change' her mine!”
“She married Tom Buchanan without a shiver”
“I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter”
“He took out a pile of shirts, and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel”
“You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.”
“So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a 17 year old boy would be likely to invent”
“ I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before, She'll see”
“Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet”
“You take my coupe and let me drive your car to town”
“Her voice is full of money”
“The giant eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg kept their vigil”
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“He was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. God sees everything”
“The holocaust was complete”
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