F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."
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"People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away."
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