Quotes About Gatsby's Smile

#1. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death! - Author: Tom Conrad

#2. An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it. - Author: Nick Harkaway

#3. Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom. - Author: Edward Gibbon

#4. Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized. - Author: Emile Durkheim

#5. I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin. - Author: Russell Kirk

#6. Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. - Author: Rex Harrison

#7. Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny. - Author: Samuel Sagan

#8. To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self. - Author: Robert A. Johnson