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" An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. "
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