“You are all a lost generation.
[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“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.”
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