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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember — F Scott Fitzgerald

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons.
I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I found something! Courage
just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My hair-- bob it! — F Scott Fitzgerald

No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby. — Amitabh Bachchan

And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby — Azar Nafisi

Sometimes
I want a quiet life
other times
I want to go
a little bit
fucking Gatsby. — Atticus Poetry

I've been thinking I'd like to be Daisy; I'd like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me — Koren Zailckas

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

Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. — F Scott Fitzgerald

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Great people especially must be careful about what they worship. — John Green

He's just a man names Gatsby. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. — F Scott Fitzgerald

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ] — J.D. Salinger

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green

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

Well, any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine — Haruki Murakami

A literary fetish is the new black — Danielle Ganek

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

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp. — John Irving

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

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies

I may believe I'm not up to snuff, but Jill? Jill thinks I can date the Great Gatsby. — Liza Palmer

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Jay Gatsby: Old sport. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield

Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris

And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove — F Scott Fitzgerald

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle De Niese

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

I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you. — Baz Luhrmann

Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be. — Joyce Carol Oates

forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult. — Leonardo DiCaprio

But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable again. — F Scott Fitzgerald

One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Human sympathy has its limits. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Taking a deep breath, I head back to Gatsby's to find Joy. — Andrew J. Keir

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby. — F Scott Fitzgerald

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. — Henry Rollins

I'm putting on a suit and tie when I go see The Great Gatsby. — J. B. Smoove

In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself. — Donna Tartt

I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses. — Ruth E. Carter

They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut. — Haruki Murakami

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green

Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at — F Scott Fitzgerald

When we studied the 1920s, he pretended that cell phones were illegal and made half the class narcs, and then he had us read The Great Gatsby. — Alison Umminger

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him — F Scott Fitzgerald

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia. — Truman Capote

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

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My own rule is to let everything alone. — F Scott Fitzgerald

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. — Joel Edgerton