Quotes about Gatsby

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Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "Tha — Sarah Vowell
My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times — F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
My own rule is to let everything alone. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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.
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. — Helen Gardner
Every year, when we finished Gatsby, I read the last page aloud. Also, every year, I wept... I almost looked forward to — Holly LeCraw, The Half Brother
Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father — Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Whenever you feel like criticzing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admi — Sarah Noffke, Awoken
If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Beca — Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth
Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other — Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win — Tom Conrad