This Side of Paradise: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

 


Of course, all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work — the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside — the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don’t show their effect all at once…

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Image: Fitzgerald Collection at USC

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