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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A writer can spin on about his adventures after thirty, after forty, after fifty, but the criteria by which these adventures are weighed and valued are irrevocably settled at the age of twenty-five."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Ring," October 1933. (Rpt. in The Crack-Up.)

"That was always my experience-- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... . However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works."

-"F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters," ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Scribners, 1994. pg. 352.

