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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Hope
Hated
Incessant
Around
Evening
Ephemeral
Made
Despair
Faded
Kindliness
People
Ambition
Passage
Sordid
Air
Glamour
Gloss
Conscious
Greedy
Intoxication
Memories
Passages
Struggle
Sober
Indescribable

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