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PrimarilyParamore*
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January 6, 2017 1:27am UTC

AND IN THE END WE weRE ALL JUST HUMANS DRUNK ON THE IDEA THAT LOVE, ONLY LOVE, CAN HEAL OUR BROKENESS.
{F. SCOTT FITZGERALD}

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August 29, 2015 2:54pm UTC

I identify very strongly with Nick Carraway. My life is my own and the novel is centred around me, but it's not really. I am the protaganist, but I'm not the hero; instead, I exist to serve witness to the great, the unfathomable. I am here to follow the great around, to see it through fresher eyes, here to stay when Rome falls to ruins. Maybe one day I will tell tales of the Gatsby that I lived to experience, and maybe nobody will believe me. Maybe I'll be the only one to believe in my Gatsby. Maybe I will attend the funeral of the experience alone. Certainly, though, I feel that I exist just to attend it.

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absent *
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May 15, 2015 4:20am UTC

the great gatsby is just hilarious because
nick, the narrator, begins by talking about the advice
his father gave him when he was younger.
"whenever you feel like criticising any one just
remember that all the people in this world haven't had
the advantages that you've had."
he explains how this caused him to "reserve all judgements"
but he then spends the next 200 pages judging everyone

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seafoam*
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April 26, 2015 7:49pm UTC

“ I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. ”
( F. Scott Fitzgerald )
Amenah's format

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seafoam*
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April 26, 2015 7:46pm UTC

“ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ”
( F. Scott Fitzgerald )
Amenah's format

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seafoam*
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April 26, 2015 7:43pm UTC

“ I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”
( F. Scott Fitzgerald )
Amenah's format

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seafoam*
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April 26, 2015 7:29pm UTC

“
They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
”

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absent *
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April 11, 2015 11:54pm UTC

"her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it,
bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth,
but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget:
a singing compulsion, a whispered "listen,"
a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since
and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour."

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haay*
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July 13, 2014 8:51pm UTC

I looked back at my cousin,
who began to ask me questions in her low,
thrilling voice.
It was the kind of voicethat the ear follows up and down,
as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
-The Great Gatsby, F.scott Fiztgerald

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britany*
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July 7, 2014 8:18pm UTC

Gatsby: Haha yeah....... old sport
Nick: do you have a signature on your texts?
Gatsby: lol no .......... old sport

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britany*
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May 28, 2014 2:03pm UTC

jay gatsby's car was a real hit with the ladies

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the1975*
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March 16, 2014 11:34pm UTC

"angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry,
i turned away."

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the1975*
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March 16, 2014 10:17pm UTC

i said it's been
a long time since
someone looked at me
that way. it's like you
knew me and all the
things i couldn't say

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FreakingPip*
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March 9, 2014 7:30pm UTC

I've recently become incredibly disillusioned with my generation. I'm practically the modern-day F. Scott Fitzgerald except for the alcoholism and the crazy wife and the amazing literary career.

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FreakingPip*
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February 25, 2014 7:16pm UTC

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther...And one fine morning-- And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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FreakingPip*
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February 25, 2014 4:58pm UTC

reserving judgment is a matter of infinite hope

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FreakingPip*
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February 23, 2014 6:00pm UTC

There ain't no party like a Gatsby party
because a Gatsby party don't stop
until at least two people are dead and
everyone is disillusioned with the Jazz Age
as a whole

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FreakingPip*
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February 23, 2014 2:13pm UTC

♥ I love listening to the soundtrack for The Great Gatsby while studying for the upcoming APUSH test on the 1920s. ♥

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FreakingPip*
posted a quote
February 7, 2014 10:05pm UTC

The sexual tension when you and your crush
are on Facebook at the same time,
and you just stare at the little green dot.
And suddenly you know what Gatsby felt like.
^Yes, I stole this from Tumblr, but this is just too relevant.

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FreakingPip*
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February 2, 2014 8:46pm UTC

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
♥

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