My Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald

October 8, 1968  (I was 23)

My Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Quotes taken from Esquire, Oct. 1968

“Jingo was  the lingo.”

“We were born to power and intense nationalism.  We did not have

to stand up in a movie house and recite a child’s pledge to the flag

to be aware of it.  We were a race that could potentially lick ten

of any genus.”

“We are these men…[who]…found themselves singing, ‘We’re In The

Army Now.’  Their first discovery of 1919 was that nobody cared.”

“The capacity of this generation has run very thin.  The war, the

peace, the boom, the Depression, the shadow of the new war

scarcely  correspond to the idea of Manifest Destiny.”

“By and large I grant them…[the next generation]…a grace we do

not have, and for all we know the Messiah may be among them.  But

we are something else again.”