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Jay Gatsby quotes
A character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 quotes spoken by or about Jay Gatsby, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
Her voice is full of money.
You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.
I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before. She’ll see.
Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me.
In any case, it was just personal.
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
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