Source: Selected Letters
“You are all a lost generation.
[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemingway 501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“You are all a lost generation.”
“All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…”
Statement quoted by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast (1964) Ch. 3, it had also provided the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Context: All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
“Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.”
“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
Source: A Moveable Feast
“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”
Book III, Ch. 9. Of Vanity
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.”
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)