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Gatsby Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
- 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…
- If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at…
- 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 -…
- The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
- 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…
- 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…
- And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard…
- 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…
- His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that…
- Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my…
More Gatsby Quotes
- The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. — Joel Edgerton
- I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission… — Elizabeth Debicki
- Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems… — Azar Nafisi
- Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The… — Leslie Poles Hartley
- It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… — Maureen Corrigan
- Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is… — Jonathan Yardley
- The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi
- I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story… — Tom Perrotta
- Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby. — Amitabh Bachchan
- Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this… — Joel Edgerton
- I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway
- I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had… — Garrett Hedlund