F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Stars Quotes, Distance Quotes

"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stars Quotes , Distance Quotes

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , People Quotes , Mind Quotes

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Fighting Quotes

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Morning Quotes , Party Quotes

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Wise Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Travel Quotes , Typical Quotes

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Boredom Quotes , Hatred Quotes

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Littles Quotes , Tradition Quotes

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Opiates Quotes

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Kissing Quotes

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Memories Quotes , Next Day Quotes

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Men Quotes , Steel Quotes

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes

Englishmen must have an island.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Islands Quotes

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Funny Quotes , Art Quotes

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lying Quotes , Littles Quotes

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Heart Quotes , Common Quotes

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Together Quotes