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“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”
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“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.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon

“There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon

“Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus”
― The Girls
― The Girls

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”
― The Last Tycoon
― The Last Tycoon

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