Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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