74 Quotes About The-great-gatsby

He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.

trying to tough what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that i had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment, a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what i had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

ძალიან მიყვარს დიდი წვეულებები. ისინი ძალიან იდუამლია. პატარა წვეულებებში კი განმარტოება შეუძლებელია

She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'Alright,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool -that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Akıntıya karşı giden sandallar gibi ilerliyoruz işte; durmaksızın geçmişe yol alan.

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.

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.