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.
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Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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