F. Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty v angličtine (page 13)

F. Scott Fitzgerald bol americký románopisec a scenárista. Citáty v angličtine.
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“I'm not much like myself any more.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zdroj: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“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.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Varianta: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Varianta: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I…”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

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“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”

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“She knew few words and believed in none.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise