I Hope You Have the Courage to Start All Over Again Fitzgerald
Update 5/xviii/2020
Yes, here we are in the middle of a pandemic, simply we never cease looking for an writer to this quote. Turns out nosotros are not the only ones to investigate who might have said "It is never too belatedly to be what you might have been." According to Garson O'Toole, author of Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations George Eliot was also said to be the author of these words. Turns out LOTS of people have maybe said this quote. You lot can read his consummate article here. Many thanks to Garson O'Toole for all of his work.
Update one/05/17
Happy New year all you Scott F. Fitzgerald and Brad Pitt fans! I just wanted to share with you the most recent sharing of this post which was with 2 fellows who appear to be living in New Zealand. You can read their web log entry on Fitzgerald and Pitt here. As they write: "The above quote is a quote from the film adaption of The Curious Case of Benjamin Push button, even though F.Scott Fitzgerald gets a lot of the credit." Thanks Wayne and Jackson for taking the fourth dimension to correct the record. This librarian salutes you both!
Update 11/07/14: Nosotros have gotten more than responses to this blog entry, than whatever other weblog entry we take ever written. The near recent commenter writes: "It's from a letter Fitzgerald wrote to his girl, Scottie." I just looked through Scott Fitzgerald's Letters to His Daughter, and I couldn't discover whatever such quotation. Although there are some lovely tidbits of advice! Here is one such tidbit, as he asks his daughter about the man that interested her when she was 18. The alphabetic character is dated August 24, 1940.:
"You oasis't given me much idea of __________. Would he object to your working—exterior the house I hateful? Excluding personal charm, which I assume, and the more than conventional virtues which get with success in business, is he his own man? Has he any strength of grapheme? Or imagination and generosity? Does he read books? Has he whatever leaning toward the arts and sciences or annihilation beyond creature condolement and duck-shooting? In brusk, has he the possibilities of growth that would brand a lifetime with him seem bonny? These things don't announced afterward—they are either at that place latently or they will never be there at all."
ORIGINAL POST
Heavens to Murgatroyd, I've come beyond some other faux quotation on the Net. Actually in this case, it was actually a quotation that a friend of mine posted (not knowing putting up faux quotations in forepart of a Reference Librarian is similar putting a ruby flag in front of a balderdash). Trouper that she is, she was happy to correct the attribution once I explained the details.
This was the quote equally she wrote information technology:
"For what it's worth: it's never too belatedly or, in my instance, too early on to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, cease whenever you want. You can modify or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can brand the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I promise you see things that startle you. I hope you experience things you never felt before. I hope yous meet people with a different point of view. I promise you live a life you're proud of. If you detect that you lot're not, I promise y'all have the force to start all once more."
And it was attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Well, information technology didn't sound exactly like 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's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Push button". Happily we had a copy of the short story on the shelf … no such quotation in the story.
So … where else might it exist? Well, I knew at that place had been a movie, and I institute a re-create of the screenplay. Here is the quotation I found:
"For what information technology'southward worth … information technology's never as well late, or in my instance besides early, to be whoever you want to be. There'south no fourth dimension limit. Start whenever y'all want. Y'all can alter or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. Nosotros tin make the all-time or the worst of it. I promise you make the best of it. I promise you see things that startle yous. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who accept a different point of view. I hope you alive a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I promise yous have the courage to beginning all over again."
The screenplay for the film was written by a fellow named Eric Roth, so I call back it is safety to say that he wrote these lines. (Although my favorite attribution of the quote is Brad Pitt … because he said the lines, so he must have written them? ) You'll discover in that location are some differences betwixt even these 2 quotations … the almost pregnant beingness the discussion strength substituted for the word courage. But judge what … Brad Pitt actually says the word forcefulness when he says the line … so did he make the alter or did someone on the prepare make the change? Fifty-fifty with a straightforward quote, there seem to always be questions. Want to see Brad Pitt say the lines? You can run across that on Youtube.
Only some other cautionary tale … don't believe everything you lot read on the Internet! (And if you lot want to read about a faux East. B. White quotation you tin can read my blog entry here.)
Source: https://www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/the-curious-case-of-misquotation/
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