Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty anglicky (strana 4)
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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise
Zdroj: This Side of Paradise
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise
Zdroj: This Side of Paradise
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Kontext: It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
“He knew now that he had always been a fool.”
"O Russet Witch!"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Kontext: Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool.
"O Russet Witch!"
But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”
Quoted, Short Stories
Zdroj: A Diamond As Big as The Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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May Day
"May Day"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Kontext: Mr. In and Mr. Out are not listed by the census-taker. You will search for them in vain through the social register or the births, marriages, and deaths, or the grocer's credit list. Oblivion has swallowed them and the testimony that they ever existed at all is vague and shadowy, and inadmissible in a court of law. Yet I have it upon the best authority that for a brief space Mr. In and Mr. Out lived, breathed, answered to their names and radiated vivid personalities of their own.
During the brief span of their lives they walked in their native garments down the great highway of a great nation; were laughed at, sworn at, chased, and fled from. Then they passed and were heard of no more.
"The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Kontext: It was an amazing predicament. He was, in one sense, the richest man that ever lived — and yet was he worth anything at all? If his secret should transpire there was no telling to what measures the Government might resort in order to prevent a panic, in gold as well as in jewels. They might take over the claim immediately and institute a monopoly.