“I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Responding to a suggestion that he return to Hollywood to work on a script of Tender is the Night in a letter to his agent (10 January 1935)
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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