Fitzgerald f scott quotes the great gatsby

“You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow, she went on .

. . Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything . .

Fitzgerald f scott quotes the great gatsby chapter 5

. Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated!”

“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 unequally at birth.”

“He had 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 external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.”

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conce