Lost Generation Quotes

• That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  War, People, Generations

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• You are all a lost generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Generations, Lost

  Quoted in Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926). In Stein's Everybody's Autobiography (1937), she wrote: "It was this hotel-keeper who said what it is said I said in this way. He said that every man becomes civilized between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. If he does not go through a civilizing experience at that time in his life he will not be a civilized man. And the men who went to war at eighteen missed the period of civilizing, and they could never be civilized. They were a lost

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• no puedes alejarte de ti mismo trasladándote de un lugar a otro.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Get Away, Sun Rise

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). "The Sun Also Rises", p.7, Hamilton Books.

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• La libertad nunca está a más de una generación de extinguirse. No la transmitimos a nuestros hijos en el torrente sanguíneo. Hay que luchar por ella, protegerla y transmitirla para que ellos hagan lo mismo.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fuerza, Paz, Niños

  Ronald Reagan (1983). "A Time for Choosing: Los discursos de Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982", Gateway Books

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• Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Generations, Lost

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.13, Penguin

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• You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  James Thurber

  Home, Night, Gertrude

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• Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

  Umberto Eco

  Lonely, Generations, Lost

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

  Franz Kafka

  Generations, May, Lost

  "The Complete Stories". Book by Franz Kafka, "Investigations of a Dog", 1971.

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• Una vez conocí la Ciudad muy bien, pasé allí mis días de desván, mientras otros eran una generación perdida en París, yo volé a San Francisco, subí a sus colinas. dormí en sus parques, trabajé en sus muelles, marché y grité en sus revueltas~ Había sido para mí en los días de mi pobreza y no se resintió de mi solvencia temporal.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Paris, San Francisco

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• Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

  Robbie Robertson

  Prayer, Reality, Generations

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• La libertad nunca está a más de una generación de la extinción.

  Ronald Reagan

  Día de los Veteranos, Libertad, Nuestros Veteranos

  Discurso del Día del Trabajo en Liberty State Park, pronunciado el 1 de septiembre de 1980, Jersey City, Nueva Jersey

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• Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Gertrude, Generations

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• El problema de la generación perdida es que no se perdió lo suficiente.

  James Thurber

  Generations, Modern Life, Trouble

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• The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
  opinion about things I don’t understand.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Differences, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

  Johnny Cash

  Kids, Simple, Choices

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• Sin novedad en el frente occidental.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Guerra, Juventud Perdida, Tranquilidad

  All Quiet on the Western Front cap. 12 (1929) (traducción de A. W. Wheen) Véase Beers 1

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• You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

  Ernest Hemingway

  Gertrude, Generations, Credit

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• Después de 1929, tanta gente había quedado traumatizada por el crack bursátil que hubo una generación perdida.

  Ron Chernow

  People, Generations, Crash

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• I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

  Nico Muhly

  Thinking, Generations, Way

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• John Clellon Holmes... y yo estábamos sentados tratando de pensar en el significado de la Generación Perdida y el existencialismo subsiguiente y le dije 'Sabes John, esta es realmente una generación beat'; y él se levantó de un salto y dijo: '¡Eso es, así es!'.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Trying, Generations

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). "El Jack Kerouac portátil", Penguin Group USA

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• The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

  Saúl Williams

  Daughter, Song, Philosophy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's boring, dumb, or just not interesting. I think it's terribly interesting if you can get your head around how it relates to where you're standing right here and now.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Interesting, Dumb

  "Entrevista: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Entrevista realizada por Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. 8 de septiembre de 1999.

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• Oh Jake," dijo Brett, "Podríamos haberlo pasado tan bien juntos." Delante había un policía a caballo vestido de caqui dirigiendo el tráfico. Levantó la porra. El coche frenó de repente, apretando a Brett contra mí. Sí", dije. "¿No es bonito pensarlo?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pensar, Coche, Juntos

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). "Sun Also Rises", p.297, Simon and Schuster

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