F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Great Gatsby Important
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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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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!
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Every one 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.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
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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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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
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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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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
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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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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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A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
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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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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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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
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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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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and 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. [- Nick Carroway]
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