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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Source:Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald (November 25, 1940); in The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Charels Scribner's Sons, ed. 1963), Page 44
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  • Name: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist
  • Born: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
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