THE GREAT GATSBY
F. Scott Fitzgerald
novel
The big love story, set in the Jazz Age, tells about Jay Gatsby who dreams of turning back time to regain his first love, Daisy Buchanan.
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man."
"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-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever."
"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."