To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to co…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Great Gatsby, p.110, Oxford University Press
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Great Gatsby, p.110, Oxford University Press

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