“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald , book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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