«The Great Gatsby» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 44

This isn't just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

'Whenever you feel like criticising anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'

Он брал все, что мог взять, хищнически, не раздумывая, — так взял он и Дэзи однажды тихим осенним вечером, взял, хорошо зная, что не имеет права коснуться даже ее руки.

  —Вы никуда не годный водитель, — рассердился я. — Не можете быть поосторожней, так не беритесь управлять машиной.

 Я осторожна.

— Как бы не так.

— Ну, другие осторожны, — беспечно заметила она.

— А это тут при чем?

— Они будут уступать мне дорогу. Для столкновения требуются двое.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future thet year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning—

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—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...

The trouble is that she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Everyone 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.

Только рухнувшая мечта еще билась, оттягивая время, цепляясь за то, чего уже нельзя было удержать.