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1. "He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. "Who wants to go to town?" demanded Daisy insistently.Gatsby's eyes floated toward her. "Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table."You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. "Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. "My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. "Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. "I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. "From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to the roof of that last and most magnificent of towers.Then I understood. Everything was explained. I had discovered the crowning error of the city. Its Pandora's box.Full of vaunting pride, the New Yorker had climbed here, and seen with dismay what he had never suspected. That the city was not the endless sucession of canyons that he had supposed, but that it had limits, fading out into the country on all sides into an expanse of green and blue. That alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining ediface that he had reared in his mind came crashing down.That was the gift of Alfred Smith to the citizens of New York." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. "The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. "It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. "Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken..." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. "I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. "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
13. "Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. "Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale»." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. "Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air. But by that time we were all pretty well committed; and the Jazz Age continued; we would all have one more." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. "But to be included in Dick Diver's world for a while was a remarkable experience: people believed he made special reservations about them, recognizing the proud uniqueness of their destinies, buried under the compromises of how many years. He won everyone quickly with an exquisite consideration and a politeness that moved so fast and intuitively that it could be examined only in its effect. Then, without caution, lest the first bloom of the relation wither, he opened the gate to his amusing world. So long as they subscribed to it completely, their happiness was his preoccupation, but at the first flicker of doubt as to its all- inclusiveness he evaporated before their eyes, leaving little communicable memory of what he had said or done." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. "But his eyes, dimmed by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his best at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on fairy's wings." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. "He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. "A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. "Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces.«Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú.»" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. "already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. "The notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bath-rooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as "a place to have a mint julep." Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea."—we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny..." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. "The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. "Theoretically, great opportunities lay ahead of a young man of energy in that day and place, but Carl Miller had been incapable of establishing either with his superiors or his subordinates the reputation for approximate immutability which is essential to success in a hierarchic industry." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. "Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. "A squalid phantasmagoria of breath" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. "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 perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. "You remind me of a smoked cigarette." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. "His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. "We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. "How do you do, Captain," she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. "He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. "I like temperamental men.' 'There aren't any. Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy-- and the ones that do, go to pieces." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. "But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I'll show the marks, don't you know." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. "L'intimità si crea così. Prima si dà il miglior ritratto di se stesso, un prodotto splendente e rifinito, ritoccato di vanterie e falsità e umorismi. Poi diventano necessari i particolari e si dipinge un secondo ritratto e poi un terzo... In breve i lineamenti migliori si cancellano... e finalmente si rivela il segreto: i piani dei ritratti si sono mescolati e ci hanno tradito, e per quanto continuiamo a dipingere non riusciamo più a vendere un quadro." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. "At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. "Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. "She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving itself." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. "Me gustaba pasear por la Quinta Avenida y elegir a alguna mujer romántica entre la multitud e imaginar que, en cinco minutos, yo entraría en su vida, y que nunca lo sabría nadie ni nadie lo desaprobaría." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. "Forgotten is forgiven." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. "Dok je došao u Zurich s manje Ahilovih peta nego što treba da se opremi stonoga, ali ipak s mnogima - gajio je iluzije o vjecnoj snazi i zdravlju, kao i o suštinskoj dobroti ljudi - bile su to iluzije citavog jednog naroda, laži pokoljenja granicarskih majki koje su morale prijetvorno pjevušiti kako nema vukova pred vratima brvnare." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. "riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch. He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. "contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. ‘Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final,' he seemed to say, ‘just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.' We were in the" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. "in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. "We all have souls of different ages" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. "If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. "O Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no orgíaco futuro que, ano após ano, foge e recua diante de nós. Se hoje nos iludiu, pouco importa: amanhã correremos mais depressa, alongaremos mais os braços...Até que uma bela manhã...Assim vamos teimando, proas contra a corrente, incessantemente cortando as águas, a caminho do passado." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. "What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. "Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last unwilingly relinquished fragment of Rosemary. He could possibly have made up Rosemary - he could never have made up her mother." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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