This is my first (hopefully not the last) classic american book read. I decided to read this because I got curious about F Scott Fitzgerald's writings, along with Hemingway, after watching Midnight in Paris movie last year.
Two weeks ago, I went to a bookstore and bought a copy of The Great Gasby in a Penguin Popular Classics paperback cover for only 99.00 pesos. :)
Let me share to you my highlighted quotes from the book:
"Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"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."
"He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of the rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or semmed to face - the whole eternal world in an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favour. It understood you just so far as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
"I wasn't actually in love, but i felt a sort of tender curiousity."
"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
"But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires..."
"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart."
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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