Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Medeniyet yok oluyor diye ba??rd? Tom öfkeyle, Ben art?k bu konuda karamsar?m. Åžu Goddard denen adam?n yazd??? The Rise of the Coloured Empires adl? kitab? okudun mu?

He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.

Mrs. Gilbert added flavor to his adventure by being impressed with his courage in braving the harsh air.

Oh, it's so hard to write you what I really feel when I think about you so much; you've gotten to mean to me a dream that I can't put on paper any more.

New York'u sevmeye baÅŸlam??t?m; gecelerinin o canl?, maceraya aç?k havas?; kad?nlar?n, adamlar?n,makinelerin sürekli deviniminin uykusuz gözlere verdiÄŸi doyum hoÅŸuma gidiyordu.

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

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 made....

Babam?n bilgiççe söylediÄŸi ve benim de bilgiççe onaylad???m ÅŸu sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyar?m: baz? temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz da??t?lm??t?r.

A??k olduÄŸumu söyleyemem ama ona kar?? müÅŸfik bir merak uyanm??t? içimde.

Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no futuro orgástico que, ano após ano, recua diante dos nossos olhos. Nessa altura iludiu-nos, mas não importa - amanhã correremos mais depressa, esticaremos mais os braços... E uma bela manhã...

Not seeing,' said Gatsby. 'No, we couldn't meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn't know. I used to laugh sometimes—'but there was no laughter in his eyes, 'to think that you didn't know.

E io adoro le grandi feste. Sono così intime. Nelle feste più piccole, non c'è privacy.

In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quit subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven halfway between death and immortality

Assim vamos persistindo, como barcos contra a corrente, incessantemente levados de volta ao passado.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

It was Sunday -- not a day, but rather a gap between two other days.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

It had been a gay party and different stages of sobriety were represented.

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.

Ciascuno di noi si suppone dotato di almeno una delle virtù cardinali, e questa è la mia: sono una delle poche persone oneste che abbia mai conosciuto