“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald , book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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