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Meretricious Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase…
- His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that…
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- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by… — Martin Amis
- The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. — D. H. Lawrence
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky
- His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The… — F. Scott Fitzgerald