“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Varianta: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty anglicky
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“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Varianta: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby
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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise
Zdroj: This Side of Paradise
“We all have souls of different ages”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned
Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise
Zdroj: This Side of Paradise
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned
Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned
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.
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
“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Benediction
Zdroj: Benediction
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise
Zdroj: This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Zdroj: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 7
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Něžná je noc
Varianta: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Zdroj: Tender Is the Night