F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Quotes

• “Ah,"she cried, "you look so cool."Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort...”
• “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had ...”
• “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people ...”
• “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is st...”
• “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happen...”
• “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
• “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
• “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
• “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
• “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
• “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
• “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
• “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
• “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
• “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
• “Human sympathy has its limits.”