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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
  • Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

    "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
  • 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.

    Honesty   People   Virtue  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • 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
  • You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.83, Oldcastle Books
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • 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
  • He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

    Confused   Past   Ideas  
    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.69, e-artnow
  • 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.

    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.9, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Men   Lasts   Faces  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
  • Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

    Girl   Forever   Mind  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)
  • 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]

    Dream   Light   Long  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
  • Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

    The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).
  • I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

    Heart   Forever   Glimpse  
    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.480, e-artnow
  • Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

    Single   Life Is   Window  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

    Dream   Men   Dust  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)
  • He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

    Past   Ideas   Gone  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.88, Oxford University Press
  • So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

    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.556, e-artnow
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