“You are all a lost generation.
[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“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.”
Source: Selected Letters
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Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
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