74 Quotes About The-great-gatsby

I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it--overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

You see I think everything's terrible anyhow. Everybody thinks so--the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Sophisticated--God, I'm sophisticated!

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all...

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.