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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.
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amecian-fiction
jazz-age-stories
fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-
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sadness
happiness
roses
fitzgerald
rose
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F Scott Fitzgerald |
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"Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men."
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faulkner
camino-island
john-grisham
old-dead-white-men
hemingway
fitzgerald
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John Grisham |
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"As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away." --
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Scott Donaldson |