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I forgot my book at school - and desperately need 2 quotes from the Great Gatsby that I can't find online - I know they are in the book because I had them annotated. The first quote I need is somewhere in the book that shows that Gatsby had never actually read any of his books, I think it mentions the bindings of the books never having been cracked. The 2nd quote (or quotes) I need have to do with the rumors that were talked about at Gatsby's party. Just in general, to show that gatsby was like his books in that he wasn't so easily read as a person. THANKS IN ADVANCE!
Answer
First quote is said by Owl-Eyes, the guest at Gatsby's party--about 1/4 of the way through Chapter III. He's looking at the books in Gatsby's library and sees admiringly, that Gatsby hasn't cut the pages (as one often had to do in older editions of books, if one wanted to read them):
âSee!â he cried triumphantly. âItâs a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fellaâs a regular Belasco. Itâs a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, tooâdidnât cut the pages.
Rumors abound throughout the book. In Chapter II, at Myrtle Wilson's get-together, we hear:
âReally? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsbyâs. Do you know him?â
âI live next door to him.â
âWell, they say heâs a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelmâs. Thatâs where all his money comes from.â
âReally?â
She nodded.
âIâm scared of him. Iâd hate to have him get anything on me.â
And at the first party, after meeting the man, Nick tries to find out more about him from Jordan Baker:
When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordanâconstrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
âWho is he?â I demanded.
âDo you know?â
âHeâs just a man named Gatsby.â
âWhere is he from, I mean? And what does he do?â
âNow youâre started on the subject,â she answered with a wan smile.
âWell,âhe told me once he was an Oxford man.â
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.
âHowever, I donât believe it.â
âWhy not?â
âI donât know,â she insisted, âI just donât think he went there.â
First quote is said by Owl-Eyes, the guest at Gatsby's party--about 1/4 of the way through Chapter III. He's looking at the books in Gatsby's library and sees admiringly, that Gatsby hasn't cut the pages (as one often had to do in older editions of books, if one wanted to read them):
âSee!â he cried triumphantly. âItâs a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fellaâs a regular Belasco. Itâs a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, tooâdidnât cut the pages.
Rumors abound throughout the book. In Chapter II, at Myrtle Wilson's get-together, we hear:
âReally? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsbyâs. Do you know him?â
âI live next door to him.â
âWell, they say heâs a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelmâs. Thatâs where all his money comes from.â
âReally?â
She nodded.
âIâm scared of him. Iâd hate to have him get anything on me.â
And at the first party, after meeting the man, Nick tries to find out more about him from Jordan Baker:
When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordanâconstrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
âWho is he?â I demanded.
âDo you know?â
âHeâs just a man named Gatsby.â
âWhere is he from, I mean? And what does he do?â
âNow youâre started on the subject,â she answered with a wan smile.
âWell,âhe told me once he was an Oxford man.â
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.
âHowever, I donât believe it.â
âWhy not?â
âI donât know,â she insisted, âI just donât think he went there.â
Great Quotes!?
Q. Anyone leave your favorite quote! i need one for my yearbook. If you know one leave it and tell me where it is from or who said it then i will pick the best one. Thanks!
Answer
A lot of chocies. These are some from my yearbooks. I have picked out some of my favorites from my page. I save the quotes i like. HEre they are
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
You are the handicap you must face.
You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
what doesn`t kill you
only makes you stronger.
There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Nothing succeeds like success.
Proverb
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
The history of the world is but the
biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
A leader is a deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
What you cannot enforce /
Do not command.
Sophocles
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb
have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes
You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Hope is the dream of a man awake.
French Proverb
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb
A lot of chocies. These are some from my yearbooks. I have picked out some of my favorites from my page. I save the quotes i like. HEre they are
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
You are the handicap you must face.
You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
what doesn`t kill you
only makes you stronger.
There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Nothing succeeds like success.
Proverb
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
The history of the world is but the
biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
A leader is a deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
What you cannot enforce /
Do not command.
Sophocles
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb
have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes
You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Hope is the dream of a man awake.
French Proverb
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
Michel de Montaigne
Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Latin Proverb
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