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The Last Tycoon Quotes

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. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying — only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon Quotes
  • Book: The Last Tycoon
  • Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction
  • Published: 1941
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