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“A man’s true character is revealed in times of adversity.” (The Love of the Last Tycoon Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Ambition knows no boundaries, it will drive a man to achieve the impossible.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast – a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“But at home he felt a curious loneliness as his butler made him tea in the samovar. It was the old hurt come back, heavy and delightful. When he took up the first of two scripts that were his evening stint, that presently he would visualise line by line on the screen, he waited a moment, thinking of Minna. He explained to her that it was really nothing, that no one could ever be like she was, that he was sorry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Failure is often the greatest motivator for success.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“He was annoyed with Lew because he had thought it was the President and had changed his manner, acting as if it were. He felt a little ridiculous, but Kathleen felt sorry and liked him better because it had been an orang-outang.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more often to meals.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“In a world driven by success, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Love is a powerful force that can both build and destroy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Money can buy many things, but it can never buy happiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“People fall in and out of love all the time. I wonder how they manage it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“She opened the door of the veranda and pulled in two wicker chairs, drying them off. He watched her move, intently, yet half afraid that her body would fail somewhere and break the spell. He had watched women in screen tests and seen their beauty vanish second by second, as if a lovely statue had begun to walk with the meagre joints of a paper doll. But Kathleen was ruggedly set on the balls of her feet – the fragility was, as it should be, an illusion.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Sometimes, the greatest love stories are the ones that remain unfinished.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Stahr’s eyes and Kathleen’s met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Success is not measured by the number of possessions, but by the impact we have on others.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“The allure of the past can be both captivating and destructive.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“The intoxicating allure of power can blind us to the consequences of our actions.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“The past is a ghost that haunts us, but it’s up to us to let it go or be consumed by it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“The world of glamour and fame can be an empty and lonely place.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“There was a midsummer restlessness abroad-early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present-or, if there was no present, to invent one.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“There’s something pathetic about Penelope like there was about Daisy, but she’s a woman and that redeems her.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“This is Cecilia taking up the story. I think it would be most interesting to follow my own movements at this point, as this is a time in my life that I am ashamed of. What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Time is our greatest enemy, yet it’s also what makes life so precious.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“We are all flawed, but it’s in our imperfections that we find our true beauty.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“We are all products of our environment, but it’s up to us to rise above it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
“You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them–always thinking people are so important–especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it–on the inside.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon
