"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."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1
"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3
"And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him..."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 9
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