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Sarah Churchwell is a British scholar born in 1970. Her research interests focus on literature, history, and cultural criticism. She is known for her in-depth analysis and critical thinking of literary works.

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Society Drink Alcohol Prohibition Bootleggers

Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Churchwell, Sarah (2014) Paperback

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“They thought Bacchus was presiding over the festivities, until Nemisis appeared - the retributive goddess whom the Romans aptly called Invidia. Nothing would surive but the stories, the tales of a quest for lasting pleasure, which left a trace of beauty: the disarray of falling stars didn't come to naught after all.”

1920s F Scott Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald

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“The Great Gatsby emerges from a world strewn with wreckage and that debris is the novel's material - sullied, but with the hope of something redeemable glinting among the ash heaps.”

The Great Gatsby

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“In fact, Mott had not been forced to believe anything: the willing lies of fiction depend upon willing believers. Like love, belief is an act of volition.”

Fiction Suspended Disbelief

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“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”

Made Moments Age America Fall Novel Bears Transformation Jazz Excellence Edges Manifest Decline Harbinger Jazz Age

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“Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.”

Art Order Teach Admire Revelations

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“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.”

Important Self Helping Emotion Struggle Our Lives Identity Expression Music Is Pops Release Cliche Pop Music Self Expression Soundtracks

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“There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.”

Ifs Teach Streets Sesame Street

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“History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.”

Facts Mistake Identity

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“If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.”

Ifs Ends Memories Party Lists Tendencies Guests

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“People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.”

People Want Given Loses Proportion Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

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“Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.”

Way Economic Effects Racism Slavery Disappear Economic Systems

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“Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.”

Passion Energy Creating Envy Rage Lust Confused Frustration Outlets Channeling

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“Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.”

Ifs Mind Made Facts Might Challenges Conviction

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Born: 1970
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