“Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is a timeless narrative that delves into the lives of the wealthy elite during the 1920s. The story follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire, and his pursuit of the elusive Daisy Buchanan, a woman from his past. The novel is renowned for its vivid portrayal of the era's excesses and the disillusionment that followed, offering a critical commentary on the American Dream. more
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, renowned for his works that encapsulate the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. His most celebrated novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' is a critical and commercial success, reflecting the themes of the American Dream and the decline of the American upper class. more
“I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”
“The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.”
“As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.”
“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”