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I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it. — Cesar Romero

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. — Charles Dickens

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. — Arthur Baer

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. — Louis Auchincloss

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. — Charles Dickens

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! — Anne Baxter

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P. G. Wodehouse

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. — Ernest Hemingway

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author. — Katherine Mansfield

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy. — Rick Riordan

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. — Oscar Wilde

Great Gatsby Nick Carraway Quotes

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 nick quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

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

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

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

Great gatsby nick quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

Great gatsby nick quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

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

Great gatsby nick quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Gatsby Book Quotes

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Great gatsby nick quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

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

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

Great gatsby nick quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The rich get richer and the poor get - children. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby Quotes

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

Great gatsby nick quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

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

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 nick quote To a great mind, nothing is little.
To a great mind, nothing is little.

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

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. — Francis Ford Coppola

Great Gatsby Love Quotes

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Great gatsby nick quote Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.

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

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

Great gatsby nick quote Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield

Great Gatsby Important Quotes

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great gatsby nick quote No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

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

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

Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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More Great Gatsby Nick Quotes

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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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