My Legacy Is Important To Me

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You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). I am renown around the world for this quote and it is very applicable to my life, because I am a writer. Although lots of my stories were not successful, I had a few hits that made me as famous as I am today. In these few minutes, I will tell you about my early life and where I came from, secondly my life and work in Europe, and lastly, my work in film and end of my time. To start off, provided that I come from a family of fame, it is only reasonable that my legacy would live on as well. My family and I come from St. Paul Minnesota, where I was born on September 24, 1896. One quote of mine that shows you just how much I

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