The+Great+Gatsby

//** The Great Gatsby **//
 * [[image:The Great Gatsby.jpg width="462" height="700" align="right"]]F. Scott Fitzgerald's **

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you 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.”

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic 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."

The History Channel: America Goes Dry [|PBS: Reflections of the American Dream] [|Snapshot: The Decades -- 1920s]