All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently t… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer.

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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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