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F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes

1896–1940 · American novelist

Fitzgerald named the Jazz Age and chronicled it in The Great Gatsby, which barely sold during his lifetime.

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

Source: The Great Gatsby, final line (1925)

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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.

Source: "The Crack-Up", Esquire (1936)