F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #1
A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #2
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #3
A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #4
A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #5
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #6
a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #7
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #8
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #9
Ah, she cried, you look so cool.
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool, she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #10
All I think of ever is that I love you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #11
All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #12
All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #13
Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #14
Amerikalilarin ara sira toprak kölesi olmayi istedikleri olur, ama köylü sinifindan olmaya karsi hep direnmislerdir.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #15
Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely slew it--but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than other boys... unscrupulousness... the desire to influence people in almost every way, even for evil... a certain coldness and lack of affection, amounting sometimes to cruelty... a shifting sense of honor... an unholy selfishness... a puzzled, furtive interest in everything concerning sex.
There was, also, a curious strain of weakness running crosswise through his make-up... a harsh phrase from the lips of an older boy (older boys usually detested him) was liable to sweep him off his poise into surly sensitiveness, or timid stupidity... he was a slave to his own moods and he felt that though he was capable of recklessness and audacity, he possessed neither courage, perseverance, nor self-respect.
Vanity, tempered with self-suspicion if not self-knowledge, a sense of people as automatons to his will, a desire to pass as many boys as possible and get to a vague top of the world... with this background did Amory drift into adolescence.F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #16
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #17
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #18
Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from all hysteria - he could accept what was acceptable, roam, grow, rebel, sleep deep through many nights...
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth - yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...
And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself, he cried, but that is all.F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #19
Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #20
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #21
An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #22
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #23
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #24
Aprendamos a mostrar a amizade que temos por um homem enquanto ele é vivo e não depois de ele estar morto!
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #25
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #26
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #27
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #28
Así es como se va forjando la intimidad. Uno entrega primero su mejor retrato, un producto resplandeciente y muy bien acabado, retocado con fanfarronadas, falsedades y sentido del humor. Luego se necesitan más detalles y entonces se pinta un segundo retrato, y luego un tercero… antes de que pase mucho tiempo los mejores rasgos han desaparecido, y finalmente se revela el secreto; los diferentes niveles de los sucesivos retratos se mezclan y nos delatan, y aunque seguimos pintando y pintando ya no conseguimos vender la mercancía. Tenemos que darnos por satisfechos con la esperanza de que nuestras mujeres, nuestros hijos y nuestros socios acepten como buenas esas fatuas descripciones que les hacemos de nosotros mismos.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #29
Astenersi dal giudicare implica un’infinita speranza.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote #30
Babamin bilgiççe söyledigi ve benim de bilgiççe onayladigim su sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyarim: bazi temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz dagitilmistir.
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