the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald; starter sentences.
❛ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ❜
❛ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ❜
❛ Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ❜
❛ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜
❛ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜
❛ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ❜
❛ You see I usually find myself among strangers, because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜
❛ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ❜
❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜
❛ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ❜
❛ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜
❛ Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!❜
❛ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ❜
❛ So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ❜
❛ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ❜
❛ I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ❜
❛ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ❜
❛ It takes two to make an accident. ❜
❛ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ❜
❛ He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. ❜
❛ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜
❛ But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ❜
❛ I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ❜
❛ I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ❜
❛ Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ❜
❛ It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ❜
❛ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ❜
❛ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ❜
❛ So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. ❜
❛ Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ❜
❛ The rich get richer and the poor get – children. ❜
❛ I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ❜
❛ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. ❜
❛ Murder your darlings. ❜
❛ It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. ❜
❛ Human sympathy has its limits. ❜
❛ A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ❜
❛ I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ❜
❛ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. ❜
❛ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ❜
❛ That voice was a deathless song. ❜
❛ I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ❜
❛ All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back. ❜
❛ But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. ❜
❛ She was incurably dishonest. ❜
❛ What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? ❜
❛ Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. ❜
❛ Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. ❜
❛ I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ❜
❛ I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. ❜
❛ God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God! ❜
❛ He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. ❜
❛ I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. ❜
