My girlfriend and I just broke up and I decided to take a gap year half way through a uni semester to sort out my health and emotional state. This quote could not have been more relivant.
This is not a F. Scott Fitzgerald quotation, it has been falsely attributed to him for years since the release of the film adaptation of: "A Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
The original quotation does not appear in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short-story, but rather, when Eric Roth was adapting the script, he created the quotation.
Plus, I find the full quotation a lot more powerful:
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
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acire180 on April 26th, 2017 at 10:25 UTC »
What did Scott Fitzgerald ever do to you??!
goodusername12 on April 26th, 2017 at 12:21 UTC »
My girlfriend and I just broke up and I decided to take a gap year half way through a uni semester to sort out my health and emotional state. This quote could not have been more relivant.
Kaos_Rob on April 26th, 2017 at 14:31 UTC »
From u/HorriBliss -
This is not a F. Scott Fitzgerald quotation, it has been falsely attributed to him for years since the release of the film adaptation of: "A Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
The original quotation does not appear in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short-story, but rather, when Eric Roth was adapting the script, he created the quotation.
Plus, I find the full quotation a lot more powerful:
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
Here's it said in the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g72M0tTvjKU&feature=youtu.be
Here's a short article about it: http://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/?/blog/entries/the-curious-case-of-misquotation/