Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ✨ Notebook L. …

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ✨ Notebook L. Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Edmund Wilson, 1945.
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