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But she’d been feeling lonely. And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.
“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners, and The Sun Also Rises was its bible.”
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
“Too much advertising had turned the spontaneity of ‘la vie bohème’ into a huge commercial success,” recalled Montparnasse bartender Jimmie Charters.”
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
“The important thing is to make a decision,” he said. “Make what decision?” “One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.”
― P.S. from Paris
― P.S. from Paris
“It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.” A”
― Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
― Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
“As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just wanted to live to see adolescence and avoid body lice.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
Elisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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