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People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost. -- Corey Stoll
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!' -- Jack Kerouac
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. -- Ron Chernow
You are all a lost generation. -- Gertrude Stein
I think my generation is a lost generation in a way. -- Nico Muhly
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] -- Ernest Hemingway
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough. -- James Thurber
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation. -- Robbie Robertson
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. -- Erica Jong
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. -- Franz Kafka
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. -- Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost. -- Dorothy Parker
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
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. -- Johnny Cash
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency. -- John Steinbeck
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope. -- Alanis Morissette
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. -- Umberto Eco
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. -- Tina Brown
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost. -- Bill Bryson
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.' -- Douglas Brinkley
Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then. -- Alfonso Cuaron
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV. -- David Mixner
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. -- Jonathan Sacks
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later. -- Jonathan Kozol
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands. -- Tim Ferriss
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. -- Peter York
What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?' -- Tony Judt
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime. -- David Puttnam
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space. -- Don McLean
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions. -- Andrew Strauss
We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked -- Charles Eddie Wiseman
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential -- Malala Yousafzai
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. -- Ezra Pound
I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions. -- Enki Bilal
I hear a lot of people say, 'teenagers of this generation are so lost.' But I always wonder what they have been doing to help them discover themselves. -- Edmond Mbiaka

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