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  1. The Great Gatsby: Top Ten Theme Quotes (plus analysis…) The American Dream: “I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

  2. 45 of the best book quotes from The Great Gatsby. 01. “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” F. Scott Fitzgerald. author. The Great Gatsby. book. Nick Carraway. character. death. concept. 02. “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald. author. The Great Gatsby.

    • Chapter 1: "A beautiful little fool" I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter.
    • Chapter 3: Gatsby's smile. He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
    • Chapter 6: How Gatsby Created Himself. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
    • Chapter 9: A Story of the West. That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
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  4. Key Quotes & Analysis. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther…“. This quote illustrates Gatsby’s relentless pursuit of the past.

  5. 97 quotes from Anya Seton: 'A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.', 'Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.', and 'Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.'

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  7. May 21, 2024 · 📑 The Great Gatsby: Important Quotes Explained The Great Gatsby: Quote #1 “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you might come across four or five times in life.” (The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3)

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