“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Variante: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.Francis Scott Fitzgerald: 467 citações48 Curtidas
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variante: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro Tender Is the Night
Variante: 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.
Fonte: Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro This Side of Paradise
Fonte: This Side of Paradise
“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro This Side of Paradise
Fonte: This Side of Paradise
“We all have souls of different ages”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro Belos e Malditos
Fonte: The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro This Side of Paradise
Fonte: This Side of Paradise
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro Belos e Malditos
Fonte: The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro The Crack-Up
Fonte: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Contexto: 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
Variante: 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.
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro Benediction
Fonte: Benediction
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro This Side of Paradise
Fonte: This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Fonte: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 7
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald livro Tender Is the Night
Variante: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Fonte: Tender Is the Night