Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text (No Series)

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Cecilia’s uncle is an idiot like—–’s brother.

  “—the rugged individualism of Tommy Manville, Barbara Hutton and Woolie Donahue.” Never forgiven Wylie for slipping it into his speech when he was supporting Landon.

  There is a place for a hint somewhere of a big agent, to complete the picture.

  A tall round-shouldered young man with a beaked nose and soft brown eyes in a sensitive face.

  The awful reverberating thunder of his absence.

  [Airplane Trip]

  My blue dream of being in a basket like a kite held by a rope against the wind.

  It’s fun to stretch and see the blue heavens spreading once more, spreading azure thighs for adventure.

  Girl like a record with a blank on the other side.

  There are no second acts in American lives.

  Tragedy of these men was that nothing in their lives had really bitten deep at all.

  Bald Hemingway characters.

  wily plagiarist

  exigent overlordship

  not one survived the castration

  Don’t wake the Tarkington ghosts.

  ACTION IS CHARACTER.