Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

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City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

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