“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, book Babylon Revisited

"Babylon Revisited"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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