# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

> In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [The Beautiful and Damned](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-beautiful-and-damned.md)
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