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Quotes: Choose one that find interesting and important and say why it is relevant in the novel.

Can you provide another quotation that you find interesting and it is not on this list?

• “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch.

• “All right… I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool–that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

• “a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

• “I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets… I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2

• “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited–they went there.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3

• “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3

• “A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.’”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 4
• “Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 5
• “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 5

• “He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 6
• “Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 6
• “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 6
• “Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 7
• “It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty.”
  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 7