Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 7)

Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Вариант: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Вариант: 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.
Источник: Tender Is the Night

Источник: The Great Gatsby

Источник: The Great Gatsby

Источник: This Side of Paradise

Источник: This Side of Paradise

Источник: The Beautiful and Damned

Источник: This Side of Paradise

Источник: The Beautiful and Damned

Источник: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Контексте: 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.

Вариант: 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.
Источник: The Great Gatsby

Источник: Benediction

Источник: This Side of Paradise

Источник: The Great Gatsby

Источник: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 7

Вариант: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Источник: Tender Is the Night