Quotes from bookThe Love of the Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. According to Publishers Weekly, the novel is "[g]enerally considered a roman a clef," with its lead character, Monroe Stahr, modeled after historic film producer Irving Thalberg. The story follows Stahr's rise to power in Hollywood, and his conflicts with rival Pat Brady, a character based on prominent studio head Louis B. Mayer.
“There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon
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“There are no second acts in American lives.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon, "Hollywood, ETC.," ed. Edmund Wilson (1941)
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