Gatsby - Quotes by idea/theme
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- Gatsby: Quotes by theme/idea
- The American Dream
- '(Gatsby) stretched out his arms toward the dark water'
- 'You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock'
- 'There must have been times where Daisy tumbled short of his dreams'
- 'Through the colossal vitality of his illusions'
- Brutality
- 'Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand'
- 'We rode on toward death through the twilight'
- 'He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog
- 'Tom and Daisy were careless people'
- Deceit/Lies
- 'She was incurably dishonest'
- 'I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known'
- 'Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once'
- 'To reserve all judgements'
- 'What thoroughness! What realism!'
- 'Dishonesty in a woman is never something you blame deeply'
- Isolationism
- 'I was both within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible varieties of life
- 'Alone and a little embarrassed,I decided to get roaring drunk'
- 'Men who move dimly and already crumbling'
- 'Grotesque gardens'
- Desperation
- 'People who never knew each others names'
- 'They came and went like moths'
- 'It eluded us then, but no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther, until one day-'
- 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past'
- 'What'll we do this afternoon, and tomorrow, and for the next thirty years?'
- 'I think everything's terrible anyhow'
- 'That's the best thing a girl in this world can be - a beautiful little fool!'
- 'I've been everywhere and seen everything'
- Love/Friendship
- 'She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw'
- 'They're a rotten bunch - you're worth the whole damn lot!'
- The American Dream
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