I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI was rather literary in collegeโone year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'โand now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isnโt just an epigramโlife is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLooking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald