France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it stil that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
America is composed not of two sorts of people but of two frames of mind: the first engaged in doing what it would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.
There are no second acts in American lives.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
