“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948

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