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"Tomorrow We Will Run Faster, Stretch Out Our Arms Farther" and Other Quotes From "The Great Gatsby"  
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These are quotes from the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

	"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
	"So we drove on toward death in the cooling twilight."
	"...paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."
	"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
	"Money. Her voice is full of money."
	"All right... 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."
	"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."
	"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
	"Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."
	"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
	"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 anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'"
	"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind..."
	"The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."
	"'They are a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.'"
	"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.'"
	"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, we're all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."
	"...tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."

Lister: Pratt
Source: Compiled by LAL

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