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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.

    Father   Years   Advice  
    Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1
  • 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.

    Dream   Long   World  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
  • The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.167, Cambridge University Press
  • Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.174, Broadview Press
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
  • They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press
  • 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 ---

    Running   Morning   Years  
    Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9
  • he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Oldcastle Books
  • It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press
  • I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press
  • Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

    Cute   Friendship   Men  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.106, e-artnow
  • 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.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.517, e-artnow
  • Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.40, e-artnow
  • There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

    Simple   Confusion   Mind  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
  • No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

    Love   Heart   Men  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.74, Atlântico Press
  • 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.

    Eye   Gay   Men  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.13, e-artnow
  • 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.

    "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
  • You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.52, Atlântico Press
  • That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.383, Book House
  • I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

    Book   Drunk   Library  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.37, Atlântico Press
  • 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.

    Men   Race   Differences  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)
  • 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.

    Dream   Passion   Heart  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

    Party   Privacy   Host  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • 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.

    Quality   Four   May  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press
  • Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • 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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