The most important thing in art is taste. — Sean Lennon
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. — A. E. Housman
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. — Roger Ebert
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself. — John Fante
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles. — Sayings
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. — Robert Motherwell
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Silence is a source of great strength.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Book Quotes
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
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Gatsby Quotes
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone'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
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 --- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Love Quotes
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. 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 two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. — Tom Perrotta
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies
Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. — Azar Nafisi
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
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 parcelled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 rich get richer and the poor get - children. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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