40 Quotes About Gatsby

A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.

Así seguimos, golpeándonos, barcas contracorriente, devueltos sin cesar al pasado.

You're some East Coast thing, aren't you? Sharp and mean and cold. What a prize you are.

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

I'm p-paralyzed with happiness." - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.