"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein……" — James Thurber
"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."
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98 Quotes by James Thurber
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When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope…
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and…
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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