“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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