The Great Gatsby

• I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
• I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
• In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "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.”