F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Great Gatsby Gatsby
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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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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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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
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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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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
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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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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
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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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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
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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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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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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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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.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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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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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.
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