The Great Gatsby Sentence Meme
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
“’I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”
“I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person, I thought it was your secret pride.”
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”
“I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful shirts before.”
“It takes two to make an accident.”
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back.”
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty year?”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
