Turnbull 1962, p. 70: "As he later described it, despair more than lust now drove him into a woman's arms... 'It seemed on one March [1916] afternoon that I had lost every single thing I wanted—and that night was the first time I hunted down the spectre of womanhood that, for a little while, makes everything else seem unimportant.'" Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Fitzgerald 1945, p. 89: "My story price had gone from $30 to $1,000. That's a small price to what was paid later in the Boom, but what it sounded like to me couldn't be exaggerated." ———————— (1945), Wilson, Edmund (ed.), The Crack-Up, New York: New Directions, LCCN45035148 – via Internet Archive
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Milford 1970, p. 179: Zelda's biographer, Nancy Milford, quotes Oscar Forel's psychiatric diagnosis: "The more I saw Zelda, the more I thought at the time: she is neither a pure neurosis (meaning psychogenic) nor a real psychosis—I considered her a constitutional, emotionally unbalanced psychopath—she may improve, never completely recover." ——————— (1970), Zelda: A Biography, New York: Harper & Row, LCCN66-20742 – via Internet Archive
MacKie 1970, pp. 17: Commenting upon his alcoholism, Fitzgerald's romantic acquaintance Elizabeth Beckwith MacKie stated the author was "the victim of a tragic historic accident—the accident of Prohibition, when Americans believed that the only honorable protest against a stupid law was to break it." MacKie, Elizabeth Beckwith (1970), Bruccoli, Matthew J. (ed.), "My Friend Scott Fitzgerald", Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, pp. 16–27, retrieved September 30, 2022 – via Internet Archive
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Donaldson 1983, p. 1: "My father is a moron and my mother is a neurotic, half insane with pathological nervous worry," Fitzgerald wrote to Perkins. "Between them they haven't and never have had the brains of Calvin Coolidge." Donaldson, Scott (1983), Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Congdon & Weed, ISBN0-312-92209-4 – via Internet Archive
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Turnbull 1962, p. 102: "Victory was sweet, though not as sweet as it would have been six months earlier before Zelda had rejected him. Fitzgerald couldn't recapture the thrill of their first love". Turnbull, Andrew (1962) [1954], Scott Fitzgerald, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN62-9315 – via Internet Archive
Milford 1970, p. 179: Zelda's biographer, Nancy Milford, quotes Oscar Forel's psychiatric diagnosis: "The more I saw Zelda, the more I thought at the time: she is neither a pure neurosis (meaning psychogenic) nor a real psychosis—I considered her a constitutional, emotionally unbalanced psychopath—she may improve, never completely recover." ——————— (1970), Zelda: A Biography, New York: Harper & Row, LCCN66-20742 – via Internet Archive
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Weaver 1922, p. 3: "But what the first book principally did was to introduce new material; it made this wild, keen, enthusiastic younger generation self-conscious; it encourage them to self-expression; to open revolt against the platitudes and polly-annalysis [sic] of precedent. In a literary way, Fitzgerald's influence is so great that it cannot be estimated." Weaver, John V. A. (March 4, 1922), "Better Than 'This Side of Paradise'", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p. 3, retrieved October 22, 2024 – via Newspapers.com
Mizener 1960: "Writers like John O'Hara were showing its influence and younger men like Edward Newhouse and Budd Schulberg, who would presently be deeply affected by it, were discovering it." ——————— (April 24, 1960), "Gatsby, 35 Years Later", The New York Times, New York City, archived from the original on November 19, 2021, retrieved November 21, 2022
Mizener 1960: "Writers like John O'Hara were showing its influence and younger men like Edward Newhouse and Budd Schulberg, who would presently be deeply affected by it, were discovering it." ——————— (April 24, 1960), "Gatsby, 35 Years Later", The New York Times, New York City, archived from the original on November 19, 2021, retrieved November 21, 2022
