“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald , book Tender Is the Night

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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