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
You are all a lost generation,
You are all a lost generation,
You are all a lost generation,
You are all a lost generation,
About This Quote

In the 1920s, Hemingway and his friends, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, were considered by some to be a "lost generation." This is because they had a great deal of confidence and spent a great deal of time and money drinking and partying. This was the first generation to grow up without the Great Depression; for them, drinking and partying was an escape from reality. However, this generation would go on to become very influential in literary and political circles.

Source: Selected Letters

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