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17 Cards in this Set
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"Your story is a mental snapshot of a rather universal experience." |
Margaret Turnbull |
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"I suppose you know that nothing is wasted." |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
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Parading one's troubles in public simply wasn't done. The essays constituted the author's "indecent invasion of his own privacy." |
Perkins |
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"I hated it when it came out, just as you did,.. but I have found several intelligent people that think highly of it. There was more truth and sincerity in it, I suppose, than we realized at the time." |
Wilson to Perkins about the articles |
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"He is completely alone because no persons are near to him, and he has no religion to comfort him. He makes me think of a lost soul, wandering in purgatory- sometimes hell." |
Laura (Mrs.) Guthrie [his secretary] |
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"My nerves are going." He told her, "I'm about to break." |
Fitzgerald to his assistant |
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"Please don't be depressed.".."Nothing is sad about you except your sadness." |
Zelda wrote to him in 1931 |
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"that something is being persistently withheld, that the author is somehow offering us certain facts in exchange for the right to keep others to himself." |
Alfred Kazin |
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In fact, apology masquerading as confession may well represent, in Alfred Kazin's words, "the best possible device for not revealing" the truth. |
Scott Donaldson |
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'As it stands, "The Crack-Up" tells its truths only between the lines.' |
Donaldson |
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"The subject of 'The Crack-Up' is Fitzgerald’s misanthropy, and the self-hatred behind it." |
Donaldson |
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"When the writing touches on this subject(his misanthropy), it achieves a vividness missing elsewhere." |
Donaldson |
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"He had, in short, been guilty of emotional insincerity for some time, yet he does not publicly blame himself. Instead, he transfers his self-disgust into distaste for most other human beings." |
Donaldson |
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"This cynicism, like much cynicism, is directed against the self." "Despite these protestations, Fitzgerald never became really anti-social." "But he did reorder his priorities so that doing his work and fulfilling his obligations came ahead of his drive to charm other people." |
Donaldson |
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It is the phenomenon sometimes called "alienation from self." |
Joan Didion |
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"This 'alienation from self' lies behind Fitzgerald’s breakdown, and behind his announced misanthropy. The very process of putting words down on paper helped free him from that alienation." |
Donaldson relating to Didion's alienation term |
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"You've been finding out a lot of things that have hurt like hell,..." "and at the end of it you'll be grown up... a bigger and better man and a bigger and better writer for it." |
Julian Street told Fitzgerald |
