F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Great Gatsby Book
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that 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 ---
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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
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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.
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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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.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
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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.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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