Everybody Behaves Badly Quotes

“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners, and The Sun Also Rises was its bible.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

“There are two versions of life: one is turn the other cheek and the other is destroy the enemy,” says Hemingway’s son Patrick, implying that Hadley was of the former camp and Pauline of the latter.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

“from In Our Time, with its terse, brutal prose, to this? Another reviewer—Harry Hansen of the New York World—made short work of Hemingway’s attempt at satire. “Parody is a gift of the gods,” he wrote. “Few are blessed with it. It missed Hemingway.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

“A Parody Outline of History Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events Imagining Them As They Would Be Narrated By America’s Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

“Too much advertising had turned the spontaneity of ‘la vie bohème’ into a huge commercial success,” recalled Montparnasse bartender Jimmie Charters.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises