“How strange to have failed as a social creature — even criminals do not fail that way — they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Letter to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald (December 1940)
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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