Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Zitate auf Englisch

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“She was incurably dishonest.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch Tender Is the Night

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“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

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“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quelle: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“Kiss me now, love me now.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch Tender Is the Night

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“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

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“I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch The Beautiful and Damned

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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch Tender Is the Night

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“You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch This Side of Paradise

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“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quelle: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories

“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald buch Tender Is the Night

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