| Question | Answer |
| "He smiled understandingly- much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life" | Nick on Gatsby's smile |
| "All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever'" | Myrtle on when she first met Tom |
| "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman. I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick m y shoe" | Myrtle on Wilson |
| "I sat down discreetly in the living-room and read a chapter of Simon Called Peter- either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me." | Nick |
| "It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things" | Tom on women |
| "All right... What'll we plan? What do people plan?" | Daisy |
| Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour." | Nick on Daisy |
| It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body | Nick about Tom |
| Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men" | Nick about Gatsby |
| "'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.'" | Nick's dad to him |
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