Nick Carraway Quotes
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Literature“Angry, and a half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“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.”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ I wasnt actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ Thats my Middle West...the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark....I see now that this has been a story of the West, after allTom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ High over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ Possibly it had occured to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsoughtfrequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and M ”
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Literature“ He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was... ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since. ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ”
Nick CarrawayQuotes
Literature“ The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ”
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