The best Quotes from The Great Gatsby

The best Quotes from The Great Gatsby

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

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Solitude & Loneliness

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Curiosity Falling in love

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

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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

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Gatsby turned out all right in 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 elations of men.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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 was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Beauty Love declerations

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Genius Taking action Head

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Leonardo DiCaprio

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Life Work Satisfaction

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother is a walking miracle.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

Baz Luhrmann

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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

Baz Luhrmann

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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

Baz Luhrmann

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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

Baz Luhrmann

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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

36

Solitude & Loneliness

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 2 Episode 7

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Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

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Falling in love

If my critics saw me walking on water, they would say it's because I can't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

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