Source: The Great Gatsby
“it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.104 (July 2018)
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
Interview with Rock Guitar Player Magazine, 2003.
Boundless Love (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”
Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
Description of Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Dr. Rank, Act III, speaking of death
A Doll's House (1879)
“I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 4 : How to attract attention and be drafted
Context: You remember me. I’m Gracie Allen. I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.
Furthermore, I’m the only candidate who got the idea of running myself. All the others had to have somebody else think it up for them, or anyway they say the only reason they’re running is because their many friends kept after them and after them until they finally gave in.
