Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Frasi in inglese

Francis Scott Fitzgerald era scrittore e sceneggiatore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Belli e dannati

Origine: The Beautiful and Damned

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

Origine: Tender Is the Night

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Origine: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Belli e dannati

Origine: The Beautiful and Damned

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

Origine: Tender Is the Night

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

Origine: Tender Is the Night

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Origine: The Great Gatsby

“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

Origine: Tender Is the Night

“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Belli e dannati

Origine: The Beautiful and Damned