F Scott Fitzgerald I Hope You Find the Courage to Start Again
Update five/xviii/2020
Yep, here we are in the heart of a pandemic, but nosotros never stop looking for an author to this quote. Turns out nosotros are not the only ones to investigate who might have said "It is never too late to be what you might have been." According to Garson O'Toole, author of Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Backside Familiar Quotations George Eliot was also said to be the author of these words. Turns out LOTS of people take peradventure said this quote. You can read his complete commodity here. Many thank you to Garson O'Toole for all of his work.
Update 1/05/17
Happy New year all you Scott F. Fitzgerald and Brad Pitt fans! I just wanted to share with you the nigh recent sharing of this post which was with two fellows who appear to exist living in New Zealand. You can read their blog entry on Fitzgerald and Pitt here. As they write: "The in a higher place quote is a quote from the movie adaption of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, even though F.Scott Fitzgerald gets a lot of the credit." Thank you Wayne and Jackson for taking the fourth dimension to correct the tape. This librarian salutes you both!
Update xi/07/14: We have gotten more responses to this blog entry, than any other blog entry nosotros have e'er written. The most contempo commenter writes: "It's from a letter Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter, Scottie." I but looked through Scott Fitzgerald'south Letters to His Girl, and I couldn't find whatsoever such quotation. Although at that place are some lovely tidbits of advice! Here is i such tidbit, equally he asks his daughter almost the man that interested her when she was xviii. The letter is dated August 24, 1940.:
"Yous haven't given me much idea of __________. Would he object to your working—outside the house I mean? Excluding personal charm, which I assume, and the more conventional virtues which go with success in business, is he his ain man? Has he any force of graphic symbol? Or imagination and generosity? Does he read books? Has he any leaning toward the arts and sciences or anything beyond creature condolement and duck-shooting? In brusque, has he the possibilities of growth that would make a lifetime with him seem attractive? These things don't announced later—they are either there latently or they will never be there at all."
ORIGINAL POST
Heavens to Murgatroyd, I've come up across another faux quotation on the Internet. Actually in this case, it was actually a quotation that a friend of mine posted (non knowing putting up imitation quotations in forepart of a Reference Librarian is like putting a crimson flag in front of a bull). Trouper that she is, she was happy to right the attribution once I explained the details.
This was the quote as she wrote it:
"For what information technology's worth: information technology's never likewise tardily or, in my case, too early on to be whoever you lot desire to be. There'south no time limit, stop whenever you want. Yous tin can modify or stay the same, at that place are no rules to this thing. Nosotros can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you lot make the all-time of information technology. And I hope you see things that startle y'all. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different bespeak of view. I hope you live a life yous're proud of. If you lot find that you're not, I promise you have the force to beginning all again."
And it was attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Well, it didn't sound exactly similar F. Scott Fitzgerald to me, so I thought I'd investigate. As it turned out my friend believed that it was a quotation from Fitzgerald'south short story "The Curious Instance of Benjamin Button". Happily we had a re-create of the curt story on the shelf … no such quotation in the story.
So … where else might it be? Well, I knew there had been a moving picture, and I institute a copy of the screenplay. Here is the quotation I found:
"For what information technology's worth … information technology's never too tardily, or in my example as well early on, to be whoever yous want to be. In that location'due south no time limit. Get-go whenever you want. You can change or stay the aforementioned. There are no rules to this affair. We can brand the best or the worst of it. I hope y'all brand the best of it. I hope you see things that startle y'all. I hope you feel things you never felt earlier. I hope you lot run into people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life yous're proud of, and if you lot're not, I promise you have the backbone to start all over again."
The screenplay for the film was written by a fellow named Eric Roth, then I recall it is prophylactic to say that he wrote these lines. (Although my favorite attribution of the quote is Brad Pitt … considering he said the lines, so he must have written them? ) You'll discover there are some differences between even these 2 quotations … the well-nigh significant being the discussion force substituted for the discussion courage. But guess what … Brad Pitt really says the word strength when he says the line … so did he make the change or did someone on the ready make the change? Even with a straightforward quote, there seem to always be questions. Want to see Brad Pitt say the lines? You tin come across that on Youtube.
Simply another cautionary tale … don't believe everything you read on the Internet! (And if y'all desire to read about a faux E. B. White quotation you can read my blog entry here.)
Source: https://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/the-curious-case-of-misquotation/
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