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This turns romance into a temperament shaped by expectation and disappointment. It can be taken to mean that being romantic is not just about loving deeply, but about refusing to accept how temporary things are, even when that refusal hurts. In a relationship that is ending, it lands as a frank admission that hope can be its own kind of illusion.
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He became associated with the Jazz Age, and his fiction is closely tied to its glamour, restlessness, and excess. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He also helped popularize the phrase “Jazz Age” in his collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He found brief success and wealth in the 1920s, but wider critical recognition came only after his death.
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Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
1992
This Side of Paradise
1920
The Beautiful and Damned
2008
Tender is the Night
1988
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2021