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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There was not a moving up into vacated places, there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future."

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"There was not a moving up into vacated places, there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future."

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