“You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”

— Ernest Hemingway, book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway501

American author and journalist 1899–1961

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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.