“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Tender is the Night

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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