"This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are, a constant striving (as those people say who gain their bread by saying it) only adds to this unhappiness in the end--that end that comes to our youth and hope."

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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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