Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Frases en inglés

Francis Scott Fitzgerald era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro This Side of Paradise

Fuente: This Side of Paradise

“Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fuente: Gatsby Girls

“So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro This Side of Paradise

Fuente: This Side of Paradise

“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fuente: The Popular Girl

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Suave es la noche

Fuente: Tender Is the Night

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Porcelain and Pink"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald (5 October 1940)
Quoted, Letters

“Look at you; you're on The New Democracy, considered the most brilliant weekly in the country, read by the men who do things and all that. What's your business? Why, to be as clever, as interesting, and as brilliantly cynical as possible about every man, doctrine, book, or policy that is assigned you to deal with. The more strong lights, the more spiritual scandal you can throw on the matter, the more money they pay you, the more the people buy the issue.”

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Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Amory Blaine" in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5
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