“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 3

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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