We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that's what a gang's supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you've got to do for your loved ones.
You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.
I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.
I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
