Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 16)

“Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay”

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….”

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

“Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?”

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”

“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

“Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains…”

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

“She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”

“When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.”

“We all must try to be good.”

“People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.”

“Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”