The Great Gatsby- Chapter 6 Quotes

"He fell just short of being news"

"I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people- his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God"

"He invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end"

"Hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing"

"I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him"

"I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish"

"Each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air"

"One moment of magical encounter, would blot out those five years of unwavering devotion"

"You can't repeat the past"

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"Why of course you can!"

"He could **** on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder"

"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"