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"You're a rotten driver... Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all."
"Other people are [careful]...They'll keep out of my way... It takes two to make an accident... I hope I never will [meet one]... That's why I like you."
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
How honest can Nick be?
"I wasn't actually in love [with Jordan], but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
One page later....
"... for a moment I thought I loved [Jordan]."
"I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: 'Love Nick'."
"They're real...Absolutely real–have pages and everything...See!... It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism!"
"...elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd..."
"He smiled understandingly...it was one of those rare smiles... it understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself..."
Elaborate Parties
"On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold."
"Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York..."
"The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others' names."
"You look at him sometime when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man."
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Why does Fitzgerald start this novel with rumors of Gatsby?
"I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany."
"Oh no... it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war."
Nick is "one of the few guests who had actually been invited."