F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald (1925) chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN, page 182:So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.


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