The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Shoot your shot Missed opportunities Love

Speaker

Amory Blaine

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

This Side of Paradise

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 2, ch. 2.

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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.

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Medium
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Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

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

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The Press Under a Free Government (Speech)
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "The Press Under a Free Government." American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting. 17 Jan. 1925, Washington, DC, USA.

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I wish I knew how to quit you.

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Actor
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Source
Brokeback Mountain
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
2005 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Another quote from 1920

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Dissolution Decline of civilization Societal collapse Political polarization Politics

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W.B. Yeats
Source
The Second Coming
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 0
Original Citation

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

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