F· Scott Fitzgerald名言

　　1、IN THE MEANTIME, IN BETWEEN TIME—As I went over to say goodbye, I saw the dazed look on Gatsby's face again. Was he doubting the quality of his happiness? Almost five years! ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　2、Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was standing in front of the fireplace. The back of his head was touching a clock on a shelf, but he was trying to look perfectly comfortable and even a little bored. His miserable eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but beautiful, on the edge of a stiff chair. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　3、'Here, my dear.' She felt drunkenly around on the floor, and picked up the necklace. 'Give it back to whoever it belongs to. And tell them all, Daisy's changed her mind!'She began to cry – she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother's servant girl. We locked the door and got Daisy into a cold bath. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　4、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever determination she had had, were gone forever. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　5、'Look!' said Daisy suddenly. Her eyes were on her little finger. We all looked. It was black and blue.'You did it, Tom,' she said accusingly. 'I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a great big powerful animal of a man."I hate that word animal,' said Tom crossly, 'even as a joke.' ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　6、They were gone, without a word. After a moment or two, we left too. Jordan and I got into the coupé with Tom, and we started for Long Island. Tom was very pleased with himself, talking and laughing all the way, but Jordan and I were not listening. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　7、Most of the big houses along the shore were closed now for the winter, and were in darkness; there was only the shadowy, moving light of a ferryboat across the water. And as the moon rose higher, the houses slowly began to melt away, until I became aware of the old island underneath. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　8、For a moment I thought I loved her. But I said nothing. I knew that first I had to get myself out of that connection back home. For me, it had never been more than friendship, but there was a sort of understanding between us, and that had to be gently broken off before I was free. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　9、I walked out the back way – just as Gatsby had done half an hour earlier – and waited under a huge black tree in the middle of my lawn. Once more it was pouring, and there was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous mansion.After half an hour the sun shone again. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　10、A moment later she rushed out into the darkness, waving her hands and shouting. Before he could move, it was all over. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　11、She looked away from me and up to the top of the steps. We could hear Three o'clock in the Morning, a neat, sad little dance song, coming from the open door. What was it in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the soft hours of darkness? ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　12、'Why didn't he ask you to arrange a meeting?''He wants her to see his house, and you live right next door.'It was dark now, and I put my arm round Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　13、And so, with the sunshine, and the leaves bursting out on the trees, I had that recognizable feeling that life was beginning over again with the summer. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　14、And as I lay there, thinking about the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first saw the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close to him. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　15、Already it was deep summer, and when I reached my house, I put the car away and sat for a while out in my small garden. It was a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and insects flying above my head. A cat moved across the grass in the moonlight, and, turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　16、There was something truly wonderful about him, a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life – he was like one of those complicated machines that show the presence of an earthquake ten thousand miles away. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　17、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　18、He smiled understandingly. It was one of those smiles that you see only four or five times in your life. It showed you that he understood you, believed in you, and had the best possible opinion of you. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　19、By seven o'clock every Saturday night, the orchestra has arrived. The last swimmers have come in from the beach and are dressing upstairs; there are at least five rows of cars from New York parked in front of the house, and already the halls and rooms are full of colorful dresses and the latest, strangest haircuts. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　20、He knew that when he kissed this girl, he would never dream his wild dreams again. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the music of the stars.Then he kissed her. At the touch of his lips, love opened like a flower and his new life was born. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　21、He stayed there a week, revisiting the places where he and Daisy had been together. He left the town feeling that if he had searched harder, he could have found her.  On the train out of town he stretched his arms out of the window, trying to catch a handful of the air that she had breathed. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　22、The sun had risen now on Long Island, and we went round the house, opening the rest of the downstairs windows. Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.  There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, promising a cool, lovely day. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　23、Daisy put her arm through his, but Gatsby seemed lost in thought. Possibly he had realized that the enormous importance of that light had now gone for ever. To him it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her, as close as a star to the moon. Now it was just a green light on a dock again.'Look!' cried Daisy. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　24、As Gatsby closed the door of the library, I was almost sure I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.Upstairs, we saw luxuriously furnished bedrooms with fresh flowers on the tables, dressing rooms, and bathrooms. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　25、From the car window Daisy's face looked out at me, from under a three-cornered hat, with a delighted smile.'Is this absolutely where you live, my dearest one?'Her lovely voice made the gray day feel brighter. I took her hand to help her from the car.'Are you in love with me?' she said low in my ear. ' ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　26、Suddenly Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.'Outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again, and we stood in a row looking out at the sea beyond the lawn.' ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　27、There was nothing I could say, except the one thing that was impossible to say – that it wasn't true.
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that he thought he had good reasons for what he had done. It was all very careless and confused. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　28、There was dancing now on the lawn, the orchestra was playing jazz, and champagne was being served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The moon had risen higher, and floating in the ocean was a silver triangle, trembling a little in the night air. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　29、But with every word of his, she was drawing further and further into herself, so he stopped that, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying unhappily to reach that lost voice across the room. ----《The Great Gatsby》

　　30、IN THE MORNING, IN THE EVENING, AIN'T WE GOT FUN—
Outside the wind was loud. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains were carrying men home from New York, and there was excitement in the air. ONE THING'S SURE AND NOTHING'S SURER THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET-CHILDREN. ----《The Great Gatsby》