Quotes from work
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is an opera in two acts written by American composer John Harbison. The libretto, also by Harbison, was adapted from the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Additional popular song lyrics were by Murray Horwitz. The opera was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in honor of music director James Levine's 25th anniversary with the company.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Closing lines
Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”
Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 3
Variant: He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Source: The Great Gatsby
