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The Great Gatsby (Quotations ("Her voice is full of money," he…
The Great Gatsby
Quotations
"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You
can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously.
"Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were
lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of
reach of his hand.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father
gave me some advice that I've been turning over in
my mind ever since.
"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."
"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You
can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously.
"Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were
lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of
reach of his hand.
He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in
a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could
have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I
glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing
except a single green light, minute and far away,
that might have been the end of a dock
"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly.
That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full
of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that
rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song
of it.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they
smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their vast
carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people clean up the mess
they had made.
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"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn.
"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
I've always been glad I said that. It was the only
compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved
of him from beginning to end. First he nodded
politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and
understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic
cahoots on that fact all the time.
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