An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the crit…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. ✨ Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920
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