Quote#Love
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old…
Quote byF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1896–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: This Side of Paradise (1920).
English (original)
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . .
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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