Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

Francis Scott Fitzgerald era scrittore e sceneggiatore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“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.
Origine: The Great Gatsby

“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.

“Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

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.
Origine: Tender Is the Night

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

“We all have souls of different ages”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Belli e dannati

Origine: The Beautiful and Damned

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Belli e dannati

Origine: The Beautiful and Damned

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro The Crack-Up

Origine: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Contesto: 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.

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”

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.
Origine: The Great Gatsby

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Di qua dal Paradiso

Origine: This Side of Paradise

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Tenera è la notte

Variante: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Origine: Tender Is the Night