Citations de F. Scott Fitzgerald

Autre traduction : "Toute vie, dans sa course, est un processus de décomposition" ( trad. Pierre Guglielmina dans Un livre à soi (Les Belles Lettres, 2011) )

En anglais: "Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work -- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside -- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don’t show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within -- that you don’t feel until it’s too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick -- the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed." (The Crack-Up)

Autre traduction : "la marque d'une intelligence de premier plan est qu'elle est capable de se fixer sur deux idées contradictoires sans pour autant perdre la possibilité de fonctionner. On devrait par exemple pouvoir comprendre que les choses sont sans espoir, et cependant être décidé à les changer." (trad. Dominique Aury, La fêlure, éd. Gallimard, coll. Folio, 2011 )

En anglais : "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. One should, for example, be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."