I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the speaker's self-awareness and perceived rarity of honesty in others.
In this quote, F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses a profound sense of individuality and the rarity of honesty in the world. It suggests that the speaker feels distinctively truthful, highlighting the importance and value of honesty in personal character and relationships, while implying that many may not share this quality, creating a sense of isolation or exceptionalism.
In practice
Using the quote in a speech about the importance of integrity.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
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.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
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