That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 22.

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