An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Punctuation Writing

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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English

Time

20th century

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Novelist Writer

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United States

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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. 18.

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