Dreams; The Great Gatsby
And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He hd come a long way to this blue lawn and 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, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
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–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther…And one fine morning–So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Friends; The Great Gatsby
“Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
-Wolfshiem; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
God knows; The Great Gatsby
“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!”
-Wilson; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
People; The Great Gatsby
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.’
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Accident; The Great Gatsby
“It takes two to make an accident.”
-Jordan, F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Smile; The Great Gatsby
He smiled understandingly–much more than understandingly. 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. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so 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, The Great Gatsby
Fools; The Great Gatsby
“She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool–that’s be best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” “You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so–the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.”
-Daisy; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Criticism; The Great Gatsby
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
