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The Great Gatsby quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.” 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
“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
“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone before any words came through.” 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
“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. 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
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind” 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
“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
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” 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
“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
“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning” 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
“It takes two to make an accident.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“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.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it—overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” 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
“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
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” 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
“And 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 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
“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
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” 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
“If you want anything just ask for it” 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
“each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.” 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

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