Fitzgerald on Talent (It’s Meaningless)

You have talent — which is the equivalent of a soldier having the right physical qualifications for entering West Point.

— From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letter to a young author who sent him a story to read over. I just love how stinging this is. It stings me! Sting! Sting! So great.

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