Miriam
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“How different it all was from what you'd planned.”
― The Last Tycoon
― 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.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
“credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
“You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
“I matched my grey eyes against his brown ones for guile, my young golf-and-tennis heart-beats against his, which must be slowing a little after years of over-work. And I planned and I contrived and I plotted - any woman can tell you - but it never came to anything, as you will see. I still like to think that if he'd been a poor boy and nearer my age I could manage it, but of course the real truth was that I had nothing to offer that he didn't have.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
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