His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He…

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

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I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

There are no second acts in American lives.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this...

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: 'To every man upon this...

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into...

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into...