![]() Roth is quite the accomplished screenwriter. Now what inspired him to write those words, who knows? He could have stole them, but I would be surprised if he did. It was in the screenplay years before Brad ever spoke the words, so it was Eric Roth. ![]() And replying to another post I saw, there is no doubt that Brad Pitt did not write that line. White quotation you can read my blog entry here.) Just another cautionary tale … don’t believe everything you read on the Internet! (And if you want to read about a faux E. Want to see Brad Pitt say the lines? You can see that on Youtube. But guess what … Brad Pitt actually says the word strength when he says the line … so did he make the change or did someone on the set make the change? Even with a straightforward quote, there seem to always be questions. (Although my favorite attribution of the quote is Brad Pitt … because he said the lines, so he must have written them? ) You’ll notice there are some differences between even these two quotations … the most significant being the word strength substituted for the word courage. The screenplay for the film was written by a fellow named Eric Roth, so I think it is safe to say that he wrote these lines. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you feel things you never felt before. “For what it’s worth … it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. So … where else might it be? Well, I knew there had been a movie, and I found a copy of the screenplay. Happily we had a copy of the short story on the shelf … no such quotation in the story. As it turned out my friend believed that it was a quotation from Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Scott Fitzgerald to me, so I thought I’d investigate. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”Īnd it was attributed to F. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. ![]() And I hope you see things that startle you. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. Trouper that she is, she was happy to correct the attribution once I explained the details. Actually in this case, it was actually a quotation that a friend of mine posted (not knowing putting up faux quotations in front of a Reference Librarian is like putting a red flag in front of a bull). Heavens to Murgatroyd, I’ve come across another faux quotation on the Internet. 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 own man? Has he any force of character? Or imagination and generosity? Does he read books? Has he any leaning toward the arts and sciences or anything beyond creature comfort and duck-shooting? In short, has he the possibilities of growth that would make a lifetime with him seem attractive? These things don’t appear later-they are either there latently or they will never be there at all.” ![]() 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 eighteen. The most recent commenter writes: “It’s from a letter Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter, Scottie.” I just looked through Scott Fitzgerald’s Letters to His Daughter, and I couldn’t find any such quotation. Update 11/07/14: We have gotten more responses to this blog entry, than any other blog entry we have ever written. As they write: “The above 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.” Thanks Wayne and Jackson for taking the time to correct the record. You can read their blog entry on Fitzgerald and Pitt here. Fitzgerald and Brad Pitt fans! I just wanted to share with you the most recent sharing of this post which was with two fellows who appear to be living in New Zealand. Many thanks to Garson O’Toole for all of his work. Turns out LOTS of people have possibly said this quote. Turns out we 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 Behind Familiar Quotations George Eliot was also said to be the author of these words. Yes, here we are in the middle of a pandemic, but we never stop looking for an author to this quote.
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