I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby', p.49, Cambridge University Press
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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby', p.49, Cambridge University Press

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