Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty anglicky (strana 7)

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Varianta: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Varianta: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Něžná je noc

Varianta: I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

“We all have souls of different ages”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Crack-Up

Zdroj: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Kontext: Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby