The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

“I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind,

“We’ll meet you on some corner. I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.”

“You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”