F. Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty v angličtine

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“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Varianta: Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
Zdroj: Gatsby Girls

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zdroj: Gatsby Girls

“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Zdroj: Gatsby Girls

“Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains…”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Love of the Last Tycoon

Zdroj: The Love of the Last Tycoon

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“We all must try to be good.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha Tender Is the Night

Zdroj: Tender Is the Night

“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned

“Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Beautiful and Damned

Zdroj: The Beautiful and Damned