“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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