The Great Gatsby

"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."

'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."

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.”

If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you.

In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family returned to Minnesota. Here Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy, in St. Paul, until 1911. At 13 he was published in the school newspaper, it was, of all things, a detective story.

And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Trimalchio is, of course, the vulgar social upstart of immense wealth in the Satyricon of Petronius – a master of sexual and gastronomic revels who gives a banquet of unimaginable luxury in which, unlike Gatsby who is a non-drinking, self-isolating spectator at his own parties, he most decidedly participates. He is a most literal glutton, while Gatsby stands at a curious distance from all he owns and displays

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past