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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)

“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.co.uk

“Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.co.uk

“In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.co.uk

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: The Great Gatsby, Uplifting Literature

“The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Lonely, Falling Apart, H4D1

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Relationships

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Relationships

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Banned Books

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Quotes, Lit quotes, Literature Quotes

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Falling Apart

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Earth, Sun

“He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her- that he was leaving her behind.”

— F Scott Fitgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Love And Loss, Breakups, It's Over

“I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com

Tagged: His Beautiful Mind

“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork tha…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: His Beautiful Mind

“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: His Beautiful Mind

“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living-room.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Fear, Love, Life

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway, amazon.com

Tagged: First Lines, Literature, first lines of books

“IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“I wish I’d done everything on earth with you.”

— Daisy, imdb.com

Tagged: Romance In Film