It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked...
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
And then, one fairy night, May became June.
Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumst...
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She...
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let o...
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scen...
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those int...
The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
I want leisure to read—an immense amount.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.