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«I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool....You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow....And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.»
«[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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desperately, fragment, freshest, snatch, stretched, stretched out, wisp
«He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bootlegger, cousin, Hindenburg, nephew, nephews, one time, second cousin
«The truth was that Jay Gatsby?sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.»
«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...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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conception, farm, His father, jay, Jay Gatsby, Long Island, platonic, shiftless, Son of God, sprang, spring beauty, The Service, unsuccessful
«And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.»
«He had committed himself to the following of a grail.»
«This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat?»
«I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.»
«The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe»
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