Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo que he tenido en cuenta desde entonces. Cada vez que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien - me dijo-, recuerda que no todas las personas de este mundo han tenido los mismos privilegios que tú.

The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots.

Kiss me a paragraph and I'll reply with a novel

snub-nosed motor-boat

Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Elle était incurablement malhonnête. Elle ne supportait pas d'être mise en échec et, pour compenser cette fragilité, je pense qu'elle s'était exercée à mentir dès son plus jeune âge, afin de présenter au monde un sourire d'insolence glaciale tout en cédant aux exigences de son tempérament avide et cynique.

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Con el sol y la gran eclosión de las hojas que crecían en los árboles, tenía esa familiar convicción de que la vida comenzaba de nuevo con el verano

I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything.

Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,' he suggested.

Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty.

he smiled like a weather man

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic 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.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I found her as lovable as a cheap old toy. She

I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiancée might get....They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic.

Supposez que vous tombiez un jour sur quelqu'un d'aussi imprudent que vous? — J'espère que ça n'arrivera pas. Je déteste les imprudents. C'est pour ça que vous me plaisez.