The Great Gatsby

by Fitzgerald F. Scott

“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.”

sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

life is much more successfully looked at from a single window,

“It’s just a crazy old thing,” she said. “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”

“I read somewhere that the sun’s getting hotter every year,” said Tom genially. “It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute — it’s just the opposite — the sun’s getting colder every year.

“You ought to have a church, George, for times like this.