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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. —Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, (3778 ) F. Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940, American novelist and short-story writer, b. St. Paul, Minn. He is ranked among the great American writers of the 20th cent. Fitzgerald is widely considered the literary spokesman of the “jazz age”—the decade of the 1920s. Part of the interest of his work derives from the fact that the mad, gin-drinking, morally and spiritually bankrupt men and women he wrote about led lives that closely resembled his own.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: f from The American Heritage®
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This Side of Paradise
A description of life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned—the post–World War I “lost generation.”
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 22263 to 22379
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