In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

— Margaret Halsey, U.S. novelist, 1910-1997

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, 1896-1940
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