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The Great Gatsby Quotes

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"I'm glad its 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"
Daisy Buchanan, dinner at Daisy's house
"You mean to say you don't know... Tom's got some woman in New York"
Jordan Baker, dinner at the Buchanan's
"Neither of them can stand the person they're married to"
Catherine, at Tom's apartment with Myrtle
"Well, these books are all scientific... This fellow he's worked out the whole thing. It's up to us, who are the dominant race"
Tom Buchanan, at the Buchanan's house
"I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night... but she never did"
Jordan Baker, talking about Daisy/Gatsby situation
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!
Jay Gatsby, talking about Daisy
"Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much as to look at a fried's wife"
Meyer Wolfsheim, at the restaurant
"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay, you always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock"
Gatsby at his house talking to Daisy
"I'd like to know who he is and what he does, And I'll make a point of finding out"
Tom Buchanan, becomes suspicious of Gatsby
"I just got wised up to something funny the last two days. That's why I want to get away"
George Wilson, talking to Tom, suspicious of wife cheating
I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over"
Tom, lets Gatsby and Daisy ride together because he knows that Daisy will never go for Gatsby
" I told her she might fool me, but she couldn't fool God"
George Wilson, talking to Michaelis about his wife
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead"
Meyer Wolfsheim, talking to Nick about Gatsby's life
They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch put together"
Nick, says to Gatsby
What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there"
Ewing Klipspringer, leaves shoes but wont go to funeral
Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds"
Owl Eyes, Gatsby's funeral
The God ****** coward...He didn't even stop his car"
Tom talking about Myrtle's death
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