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F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Quotes: You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
         

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.


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