Use these 41 quote posters for your unit on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
'I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
'Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
'And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
'I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
'Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
'You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
'Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
'Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
'So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
'It takes two to make an accident."
'And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."
'If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him"
'Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
'Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."
'I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him." - Nick Carroway
'He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden."
'They were careless people ... 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 . . . . "
'What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy."
'I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"
'What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"
'She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow."
'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before."
'Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space."
'They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park."
'Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves."
'Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. 'God sees everything," repeated Wilson."
'This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."
'In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year.' She looked at us all radiantly. 'Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock."
"He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman . . . I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."
"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there."