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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

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