Fitzgerald

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    Listen, little Elia: draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)