You see, I thought you ought to know something about my life. I didn't want you to think I was... Well, I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody.
His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would like to be understood and believed in.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in THE GREAT GATSBY (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Do they miss me in Chicago? — They're absolutely in mourning. Crying, wailing, shouting "Daisy Buchanan, we can't live without you!" — I'm paralyzed with happiness.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that i’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ’whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.