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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  4. It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
  5. Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity…
  6. Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter... And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...
  7. My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old grace…
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  • art
  • excellence
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