Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

the silver pepper of the stars.

I wish I was in print. It will be odd a year or so from now when Scottie assures her friends I was an author and finds that no book is procurable.

DoÄŸum yapal? bir saat bile olmam??t?. Tom'un nerede olduÄŸunu Tanr? bilir. Narkozdan ç?k?nca yoÄŸun bir terkedilmiÅŸlik hissi içimi kaplad? ve hastabak?c?ya k?z m? oÄŸlan m? diye sordum. K?z olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenince de, arkam? döndüm ve aÄŸlad?m pekala dedim kendime k?z olduÄŸuna sevindim. Umar?m aptal olur. Çünkü bu dünyada bir k?z için en iyisi aptal ve güzel olmak.

La vita, dopo tutto, appare molto più brillante se la si considera da un solo punto di vista

We all turned and looked around for Gatsby. It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes...

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

So we beat on, boats against the current.

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

Mi fa piacere che sia femmina. E spero che sarà una stupida... è la cosa migliore per una bambina, a questo mondo, una bella e piccola stupida.

I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.

Kui ma noorem ja mõjutatavam olin, andis isa mulle kord head nõu, mille üle ma siiamaani mõtteid mõlgutan. «Kui sul tuleb tahtmine kedagi kritiseerida,» sõnas ta mulle, «siis tuleta endale meelde, et mitte kõikidel inimestel siin ilmas ei ole neid eeliseid olnud mis sinul.»

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

Înving?torii aparÈ›in pr?zii.

He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mother to a son by attaching them too closely: afterward, out in the world, the child would seek in the marriage partner the same blind tenderness and, failing probably to find it, turn against love and life

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

Era uno di quei rari sorrisi dotati di un'eterna rassicurazione, uno di quelli in cui t'imbatti quattro o cinque volte al massimo nella vita.

It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.

E remarcabil c? o fiin?? uman? poate s? înÈ›eleag? atît de puÈ›in, deÈ™i tr?ieÈ™te într-o civilizaÈ›ie atît de complex?.

there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;

I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.