Scott

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    Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Kittering’s brain. What we will he think when he resumes life in that body? Will he thank us for giving him a new lease on life? Or will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?
    —W. Scott Darling. Erle C. Kenton. Dr. Frankenstein (Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

    The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)