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Lost Generation
"Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation of writers that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, his then mentor and patron. The phrase originates from an argument Gertrude Stein overheard between a French garage owner and his employee. The owner accused the employee, a young veteran of World War I, of belong to “une génération perdue” - a lost generation.
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
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Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.
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― America and the young intellectual
― America and the young intellectual
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Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
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― Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
― Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
