Francis Scott Fitzgerald citations célèbres
Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
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Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
Francis Scott Fitzgerald Citations
Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925
                                        
                                        Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's not matter – tomorrow we will run faster, strech out our arms farther... And one fine morning –  So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. 
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Gatsby le magnifique (The Great Gatsby), 1925 
Variante: Gatsby croyait en la lumière verte, en l'extatique avenir qui d'année en année recule devant nous. Il nous a échappé! Qu'importe! Demain nous courrons plus vite, nos bras s'étendront plus loin... Et un beau matin...
C'est ainsi que nous avançons, barques luttant contre un courant qui nous rejette sans cesse vers le passé.
                                    
La fêlure
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Citations en anglais
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
                                        
                                        Variante: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known. 
Source: The Great Gatsby
                                    
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
                                        
                                        Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald). 
Quoted, Letters 
Variante: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. 
                                    
                                        
                                        Variante: 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. 
Source: Tender Is the Night
                                    
“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“We all have souls of different ages”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
                                        
                                        Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936) 
Contexte: 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.
                                    
                                        
                                        Variante: 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. 
Source: The Great Gatsby
                                    
“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
Source: Benediction
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
                                        
                                        Variante: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. 
Source: Tender Is the Night
                                    
                                        
                                        "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz" 
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
                                    
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“People living alone get used to loneliness.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
Source: This Side of Paradise