(1896–1940)
US novelist, short story writer, and essayist“It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbor’s as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.”
more infosource: The Crack Up (New York: New Directions, 2009) [reprint], 63.
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category: insomnia
medium: Essay
via: The Bronze Medal“Lola Shisbe had never wrecked a railroad in her life. But she was just sixteen and you had only to look at her to know that her destructive period was going to begin any day now.”
more infosource: The Crack Up (New York: New Directions, 2009) [reprint], 138–39.
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category: adolescence, destructive, rebellion, teenager
medium: notebook
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
more infosource: The Crack Up (New York: New Directions, 2009) [reprint], 126.
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category: aging, perseverance, persistence, vitality
medium: notebook
“Parked his pessimism in her sun-parlor.”
more infosource: The Crack Up (New York: New Directions, 2009) [reprint], 126.
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category: blues, depression, pessimism
medium: notebook
F. Scott Fitzgerald