I'd rather marry a man of fifty and be taken care of than marry a man of thirty and take care of him.

Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks.

Quando qualcuno ha tanto da dare all'esterno, ciò non indica forse una carenza di intensità interiore?

Do you think the solitude in which I live has a more amusing decor than any other solitude? Do you think it is any nicer for remembering that were times very late at night when you and I shared our alone-ness? I will take my full share of responsibility for all this tragedy but I cannot spread beyond the limits of my reach and gasp.

Los escritores son como niños: ni siquiera en circunstancias normales son capaces de concentrarse en su trabajo.

Ori de câte ori te simți ispitit să critici pe cineva, mi-a spus el, adu-ți aminte că nu toți oamenii din lumea asta au avut privilegii pe care le-ai avut tu.

SoWalter Arensberg,Alfred Kreymborg,Carl Sandburg,Louis Untermeyer,Eunice Tietjens,Clara Shanafelt,James Oppenheim,Maxwell Bodenheim,Richard Glaenzer,Scharmel Iris,Conrad Aiken,I place your names hereSo that you may liveIf only as names,Sinuous, mauve-colored names,In the JuvenaliaOf my collected editions.

Así seguimos, golpeándonos, barcas contracorriente, devueltos sin cesar al pasado.

Le quattro: i piedini che muovevano al suono della musica, il viso distinto nella folla, il cavaliere felice come un cagnolino vezzeggiato e pazzo come l’eterno cappellaio…

Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.