“France was a land, England was a people, but
America, having about it still 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
their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald,
"The Swimmers," Saturday
Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1929Thursday, July 4, 2013
Quote of the Day (F. Scott Fitzgerald, on America as a ‘Willingness of the Heart’)
“France was a land, England was a people, but
America, having about it still 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
their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald,
"The Swimmers," Saturday
Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1929
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