There are no second acts in American lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Second chances Redemption America

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Last Tycoon

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Novelist Writer

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United States

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941, notes.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 4.

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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

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Medium
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Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Another quote about America

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

Langston Hughes

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American ideals America

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Langston Hughes
Source
Let America Be America Again
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Hughes, Langston. "Let America Be America Again." Esquire Magazine, July 1936.

Another quote from 1940

A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

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Lies
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The Blue Fairy
Actor
Evelyn Venable
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Pinocchio
Medium
Film
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Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.