These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desireβI shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail. β¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text, p.138, Simon and Schuster
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