F. Scott Fitzgerald Confusion Quotations

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…