Jordan Baker quotes
A character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8 quotes spoken by or about Jordan Baker, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
They’ll keep out of my way. It takes two to make an accident.
I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.
You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.
And Daisy ought to have something in her life.
She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.
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