F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby."
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"Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"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, The Great Gatsby
"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past."Can't change the past" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"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, The Great Gatsby
"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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