菲茨杰拉德
“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一
要摧毀一種文化，你不必燒書。只要讓人們停止閱讀它們。
行動即性格。
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
世界通常不在海灘和鄉(xiāng)村俱樂部里生活。
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
所有好的寫作都是在水下游泳并屏住呼吸。
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
永遠不要把一次失敗和最終的失敗混為一談。
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
一流智力的檢驗標準是同時持有兩種相反的觀點，并且仍然能夠正常運作。
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
你寫作不是因為你想說什么，而是因為你有話要說。
I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
我希望她是個傻瓜——這是女孩在這個世界上最好的事情，一個美麗的小傻瓜。
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
于是我們繼續(xù)奮力向前，逆水行舟，被不斷地向后推，直至回到往昔歲月。