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“A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.” (The Great Gatsby Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby’s party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a ‘nice’ girl could be.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He was his wife’s man and not his own.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby’s liquor.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Her voice is full of money.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. 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. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” (The Great Gatsby Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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 parceled out unequally at birth.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you’d of thought she had my appendix out.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I suppose he smiled at Cody—he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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
The Great Gatsby
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
The Great Gatsby
“In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Oh, you want too much! I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” (The Great Gatsby Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing—and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“The bottle of whiskey—the second one—was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who ‘felt just as good on nothing at all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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
The Great Gatsby
“The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“The thing to do is to forget about the heat. You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself…he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn’t have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“We’ll meet you on some corner. I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn’t care.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.” (The Great Gatsby Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
“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
The Great Gatsby
