Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

yapmac?k tav?rlar?n çoÄŸu, baÅŸlarda olmasa bile, eninde sonunda hep bir ÅŸey gizlemek içindir-

You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?

But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he'd left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. Again

Bir an ona a??km???m gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düÅŸünen, kurallar? olan biriyim, bu da arzular?m? frenlememi saÄŸlar.

I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.

Sono lo Sceicco d'Arabia Il tuo amore mi appartiene. Di notte, quando non riesci a dormire, ti adulerò nella tua tenda.

I hate to be laughed at,' she said finally. 'I won't laugh any more, I'm not laughing now, am I?' 'You did.' 'Oh, don't be so darned feminine.' Her lips curled slightly. 'I'll be anything I want.

Foarte puÈ›ini dintre cei care subliniaz? inutilitatea vieÈ›ii observ? inutilitatea lor înÈ™ile. Probabil cred c?, proclamând inutilitatea vieÈ›ii, reuÈ™esc s?-È™i salveze propia valoare de la ruin? - dar nu reulÈ™esc.

Tundsin end suurepäraselt. Olin tühjendanud kaks päratut vahuveinipokaali ja kõik, mis ma enda ümber nägin, omandas suure ning sügava tähenduse.

I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon. In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house—the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Et quand j'ai vu ses lèvres hautaines s'éclairer d'un sourire, j'ai serré le bras davantage pour qu'elles se rapprochent des miennes.

Herkes temel erdemlerden hiç deÄŸilse bir tanesini ta??d???n? düÅŸünür. Bana gelince: ben bugüne dek tan?d???m üç beÅŸ dürüst insandan biriyim.

Iga inimene kipub enda juures nägema vähemasti üht suurt voorust, nii ka mina: ma olen aus inimene, üks vähestest, keda tunnen.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Isn't it funny and lonely being together, Dick? No place to go except close.

Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.

What had seemed a melancholy happening, now seemed a tiresome anticlimax. HE was dressed at half past, so he sat down by the window; felt that the sinews of his heart were twisted somewhat more than he had thought. What an ironic mockery the morning seemed! -- bright and sunny, and full of the smell of the garden...

Demek ki o haziran gecesi sadece y?ld?zlar? izlemiyormu?.