PERSONAL in Classic Quotes

1  Now see here, Tom," said Daisy, turning around from the mirror, "if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

2  On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

3  The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

4  This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  He was employed in a vague personal capacity--while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

6  At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9