God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
F. Scott FitzgeraldActually thatโs my secret โ I canโt even talk about you to anybody because I donโt want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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