Francis Scott Fitzgerald To Frances Scott Fitzgerald ... FSFs #1

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's book,

The Crack-Up

was published post-humously

and contains numerous letters

written to his daughter

 

This Letter 

—from "Scott" to "Scottie"—

was written 

May 7, 1940

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You asked me whether in the Arts

I thought it was better to originate

a new form or to perfect it.

The best answer is the one

Picasso made rather bitterly

to Gertrude Stein:

 

YOU DO SOMETHING FIRST

AND THEN SOMEONE

COMES ALONG

AND DOES IT PRETTY

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