Books Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

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 that, even…

— Maureen Corrigan

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

— W. P. Kinsella

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

“Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in…

— Primo Levi

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in…

— Azar Nafisi

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

— Maria Montessori

From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own…

— Ursula K. Le Guin