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And F Scott Fitzgerald died in poverty essentially unknown, while James Patterson is worth over $800 million.
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Wholly untrue. Fitzgerald made a ton of money, was well known, and overspent.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/f-scott-fitzgera...


That's a different metric.

The parent's anecdote claimed that quantity led to quality, when objectively speaking it does not in the real world. I could have alternatively used Ali Baba as an example of what quantity gets you.




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