“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald , book This Side of Paradise

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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