At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
From F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Action is character.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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