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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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