#tgg sentence starters

[vincememes]

the great gatsby starters

feel free to change pronouns as needed.

❛   angry, and half in love with them, and tremendously sorry.  ❜  

❛   so we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.    ❜  

❛   i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy.  ❜

❛   i was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.  ❜  

❛   i couldn’t forgive him or like him.   ❜  

❛   it was all very careless and confused.  ❜  

❛   i wasn’t actually in love, but i felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜  

❛   i usually find myself among strangers because i drift here and there. ❜  

❛   i drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜  

❛   reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.  ❜  

❛   you can’t repeat the past.   ❜  

❛   why, of course you can!  ❜  

❛   there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.  ❜  

❛   i felt a haunting loneliness sometimes.  ❜  

❛   they were careless people.  ❜  

❛   they smashed things up and then retreated into their money.  ❜  

❛    and they let others clean up the messes they had created.    ❜  

❛    i think everything’s terrible anyhow.  ❜  

❛    i’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. ❜  

❛   sophisticated—   god, i’m sophisticated! ❜  

❛    i am still a little afraid of missing something. ❜  

❛   whenever you feel like criticizing someone...  ❜  

❛   just remember that people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. ❜

❛   you make me feel uncivilized.  ❜  

❛   can’t you talk about crops or something?  ❜  

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

❛   all i kept thinking about, over and over.    ❜  

❛    you can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.  ❜  

❛    it takes two to make an accident. ❜  

❛   you looked at me the way everyone wants to be looked at.  ❜  

❛   i am one of the few honest people that i have ever known.  ❜  

❛   ...and for a moment i thought i loved you.  ❜  

❛   i am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.  ❜

❛   do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it?  ❜  

❛   i’ve been drunk for about a week now.  ❜  

❛   you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.  ❜  

❛   it’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.  ❜  

❛   his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.  ❜  

❛   there was something gorgeous about him.   ❜  

❛   every one suspects themself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.  ❜  

❛   there is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜  

❛   they must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves.    ❜  

❛   their face was sad and lovely with bright things in it.  ❜  

❛   life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.  ❜