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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
Source:
Letter to Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald (November 14, 1917); in The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Charels Scribner's Sons, ed. 1963), Page 452
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Writer, Novelist
Born:
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
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