The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1941)

‘I wear my heart where God put it – on the inside.’ (Protagonist of The Last Tycoon, boy wonder movie producer Monroe Stahr, page 21) ‘When I want to know anything, I’ve got to ask some drunken writer.’ (Stahr, in a complaint which mocks his creator, p.92) ‘We have to take people’s own favourite folklore […]