Practice Test: The Great Gatsby Important Quotations

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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."
"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever'"
"'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.'"
"All right... What'll we plan? What do people plan?"
"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."
"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"
"It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things"

It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body
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"
"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"