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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
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Short Story Writer
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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
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