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Lost Generation
"Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation of writers that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, his then mentor and patron. The phrase originates from an argument Gertrude Stein overheard between a French garage owner and his employee. The owner accused the employee, a young veteran of World War I, of belong to “une génération perdue” - a lost generation.
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
Stein, when recounting the story to Hemingway, added: "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in ...more
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There were thousands of young men, as padres at the front would testify, in whom belief in God was an unshakeable conviction, and who in danger, in bodily agony and in death found peace and consolation in their undimmed faith. There were thousands upon thousands again for whom religion had always been a matter of indifference, and to whom it remained so. But there were also those, not negligible in point of numbers, and far from negligible in point of intelligence, who quietly thought about it a
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― As We Are
― As We Are
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I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.
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― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
