Quotes from F.Scott Fitzgerald

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken --

He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

one thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time

He's just a man names Gatsby.

I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all along.

One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.

The sky was low at night, full of the presence of a strange and watchful God.

A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.

You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.

Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face