“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
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