Quotes about Gatsby

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It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so — Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scot — Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
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
Human sympathy has its limits. — 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
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying — Maxwell Perkins
The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impression you make a paragraph carry — Maxwell Perkins
Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “ — John Green
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he cried incredulously — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby