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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

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
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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Film
Heads
Dismiss
Able
Granted
Equation
Ever
Pictures
Reserve
Take
Hollywood
Equations
Whole
Understood
Reserves
Men
Half
Flash
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Understand
Dozen
Dimly
Keep
Contempt
Flashes

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