# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

> Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone."

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [The Great Gatsby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby.md)
- Page: 172
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Chapter_9) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/let-us-learn

## More from this book

> No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/no-gatsby-turned-out.md)

> "I wouldn’t ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can’t repeat the past."
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> "Can’t repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
>
> He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
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> "I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She’ll see."

p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/i-wouldnt-ask.md)

> It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/it-is-invariably.md)