After recently rereading F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and watching the new movie, I was struck by the poetic language and thought-provoking observations. Here's my top eleven quotes from the book.

1. of

2. my

3. Favorite

4.
quotes

5. from
The Great Gatsby
by
11

6. you've had.
Whenever you feel like
criticizing anyone,
just remember
that all the people
in this world
haven't had the
advantages that

7. On Sunday morning while the church
be!s rang in the villages alongshore,
the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's
house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.

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

9. pvacy.
And I likelarge parties.
They're so
intimat#
At small parties,
there isn't any
~ Jordan Baker

10. from
a
single
window.
Life $
much
more
successfully
looked at

11. of adjustment.
It is invariably saddening
to look through new eyes
at things upon which
you have expended your own powers

12. the sick and
the well.
And it occurred to me
that there
was no difference
between men, in
intelligence
or race,
so profound
as the difference
between

13. I knew a lot because
I knew different things
from her.
She %ght

14. Thereareonlythe
pursued, the pursuing,
thebusy,andthetired.
~ Nick Carraway

15. So we beat on,
boats against
the current,
borne back
ceaselessly
into the past.

16. he is dead.
Let us learn
to show our
friendship
for a man when
he is alive
and not after
~ Meyer Wolfshiem

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