So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist and chronicler of the Jazz Age whose masterpiece 'The Great Gatsby' is widely considered the greatest American novel of the twentieth century. His luminous prose captured the glamour and moral emptiness of the American Dream with tragic precision.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Other Quotes

There are no second acts in American lives.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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