Francis Scott Fitzgerald I was born on a day like today from 1896 and is considered one of the best authors of the XNUMXth century. Member of the Lost Generation of the XNUMXs, his best-known novel is The Great Gatsby (1925). We remember it with this selection of phrases and fragments Of his work.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald — Phrases and fragments
Tales from the Jazz Age
story collection divided into three groups, which were published in magazines. The stories stand out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which had a film version in 2008) and A diamond as big as the Ritz.
- It was not a mistake: he saw a seventy-year-old man, a seventy-year-old newborn, a newborn whose legs were sticking out of the crib in which he was resting.
- A certain rigidity took hold of him, the blood rushed to his cheeks and forehead, and he felt the constant throbbing of blood in his ears. It was first love.
- It is you, the young people with energy and vitality, who have a great future ahead of you.
- “I will never get married,” he said. I have seen many weddings, and I know that a happy marriage is a very rare thing. And I'm already too old.
- The column of travelers waiting to board the train seemed as remote to me as the inhabitants of another world, but it was I who drifted away and left them behind.
- All life was weather: waiting, under that heat in which the facts made no sense, for the coolness to return, caressing and soft like a woman's hand on a tired forehead.
The Great Gatsby
With its adaptations to the cinema of 1974 who starred Robert Redford, Y de 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio.
- It is a great advantage not to drink among people who drink a lot. You don't talk too much and at the right moment you can allow yourself some minor irregularity because everyone is so blind that they don't even notice or don't care.
- Not judging is a reason for infinite hope.
- It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic availability such as I have never known in anyone and such as I will probably never find again.
- It was one of those rare smiles capable of calming us for all eternity, which we only encounter four or five times in our lives.
Soft is the night
- When you get drunk you don't break anything except yourself.
- I don't ask you to always love me like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there will always be the person I am tonight.
- In any case, you should not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
- They talked aimlessly, each one speaking for the other...
Crack-up
Collection of essays, letters unpublished and autobiographical notes.
- I speak with the authority of failure.
- The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.
- On a truly dark night of the soul it is always three in the morning, day after day.
- The problem has no necessary connection with discouragement: discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from problems as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
- The natural state of the sensitive adult is qualified unhappiness.
- I very carefully avoided writers because they can perpetuate problems like no one else can.
at your age — fragment
«And, as he drove in the winter light of twilight, he continued his reasoning until he reached an unprecedented conclusion. Perhaps the time of day was to blame, for the shop windows that shone in the cold air, the sleigh bells, the bright white trail of shovels on the sidewalks, the immense distance of the stars, brought back his thoughts. sensations from other nights thirty years ago. For an instant the girls he had known then slipped away like ghosts from his current heavy matronly bodies and fluttered before him with frosty, seductive laughter, until a pleasant shiver ran down his spine.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. About writing —Larry Phillips
- An author must write for the young people of his generation, the critics of the next, and for all the teachers of the future.
- You can pay some money, but what do you do when you've played with someone's feelings? The writer is continually driven by his temperament to commit damage that he will never be able to repair.
- Don't be demoralized if your story is not successful. I'm not going to encourage you just because. If you want to succeed you will have to overcome a few obstacles and learn from experience. To be a writer it is not enough to desire it. If you have something to say and you think no one has said it before, you must feel that something strongly enough to find an equally original way to say it. Thus, what you have to say and the way you say it will merge as intimately as if you had conceived the two things together.