#m

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#against #hope #hopes #i #last

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#conspiracy #first #first things #found #investigation

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#effect #genius #into #mind #put

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#common #common good #day #define #democrats

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#heart #i #inside #like #me

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#been #experience #frequently #i #misrepresented

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#fancy #half #in the past #legitimacy #past