#youth

I’ve officially turned into a loser,” she whispered cynically. “I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year, I guess, and it’s June. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #law-school-school #love

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#big event #event #father #film #going

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dream #everybody #form #madness #youth

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#author #critics #ever #generation #his

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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#critics #ever #generation #his #idea

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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#age #became #children #continued #elders

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#actually #glasgow #i #introducing #just

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#find #get #give #over #time