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The Great Gatsby

The authentic edition from Fitzgerald's original publisher. This edition approved by the Holden-Crowther Literary Organisation. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (55)Francis Scott Fitzgerald (4)Daisy (1)F Scott Fitgerald (1)Nick Carraway (1)

“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: deeply in love, Love

“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: deeply in love, Love, Selfless Love

“In my heart I love her all the time.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Love, Certainty

“In my heart I love her all the time.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love & Happiness, Romantic Messages, Romantic Feelings

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Curiosity

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth – but there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: she, Attraction, affection, Love

“Love isn’t like it is in books.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“It takes two to make an accident.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Fate, accident, Be Careful

“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.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Criticism, Humility, Advantages, Priviledge

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Summer, Hope, New Beginning

“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.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: criticize, Criticism, Empathy, Understanding Others, Better Person

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Others, Life, Relationships

“He looked at her the way all girls wanted to be looked at.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, affection, admiration

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Strangers, Forgetting, Moving On, Letting Go

“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Distraction, Ambition, Desire

“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Life

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: realizations, Life

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: found, lost

“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.co.uk

“'Look here, old sport, [...] what's your opinion of me, anyhow?' A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.co.uk