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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
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Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald's contemporaries couldn't bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Sarah Churchwell
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1970
(age 54)
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Sarah Bartlett Churchwell is an American-born academic who is the Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities, and director of the Being Human festival at the University of London, UK.
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