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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power

by Jennifer Wright (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 04, 2026 07:00PM

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The Hounding

by Xenobe Purvis

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Passing

by Nella Larsen

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Amanda’s Quotes

“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

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“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott

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“All I think of ever is that I love you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

tags: ever, gloria, love, sweet, think, you

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“Things to worry about:

Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship

Things not to worry about:

Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions

Things to think about:

What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:

(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?

With dearest love,

Daddy”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald (letter to his daughter)

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, letter

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