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"F Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise. I found this well-written but somewhat empty and annoying - 'everything's fine if you're handsome and rich'... Then I read his Wikipedia page and he was from a very middle-class background with working parents which cast the book into a new light, gave it "
""I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes." This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald"
"F Scott Fitzgerald - *This Side of Paradise*. I found this well-written but somewhat empty and annoying... Then I read his Wikipedia page and he was from a very middle-class background with working parents which cast the book into a new light"