It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.
It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At t...
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 abso...
I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail...
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.
I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded e...
Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your personality, as you persist in calling...
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all o...
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.