"He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret."

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About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer closely associated with the Jazz Age. He is best known for The Great Gatsby and for his portrayals of wealth, aspiration, and social change in 20th-century America. His work became central to the American literary canon.

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