Scott Fitzgerald

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    The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    How shall we adorn
    Recognition with our speech?—
    —N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

    Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
    —Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)