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Great Gatsby Quotes - - Demonstrating the Richness of Fitzgerald's Writing

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It was in Paris that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby." Although this 1924 novel was not a runaway success, it was critically acclaimed. These Great Gatsby quotes clearly demonstrate why this novel has acquired the status of a classic and inspired a movie version starring none other than Robert Redford. These Great Gatsby quotes are truly a testament to the literary skill of Fitzgerald.

  • All right... 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.

  • ...but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.

  • Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

  • I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.

  • I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

  • I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated -- God, I’m sophisticated!

  • It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy -- it increased her value in his eyes.

  • It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

  • The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.

  • The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe.

  • [Tom] would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

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