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  Youth Quotes - To forget is the secret of eternal youth   “youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” ― Aristotle   “Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.” ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold   “In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.” ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King   “To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.” ― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades   “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of mil...

  Youth Quotes - MOTHER IS WATER   “All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself” ― Zelda Fitzgerald   “I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.” ― Charlotte Eriksson   “Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.” ― S. E. Hinton   “He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, esp...

  Youth Quotes - I just want to be someone   “Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room   “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy   “Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night   “My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees...

  Writing Quotes - Write what should not be forgotten   “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.” ― David Levithan, Every Day   “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” ― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim   “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ― George Orwell, Why I Write   “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the...