At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Stages of life Aging Convictions

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Medium

Short story

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Saturday Evening Post, May 1920.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, edited by Jackson Bryer. Library of America, 2000.

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I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

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Time
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W.B. Yeats

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Source
The Second Coming
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Source
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Genre
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1895 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 57.

Current Citation

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