“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
“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.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
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