You are all a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein

Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway].” · The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), said to Hemingway

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein · Everybody's Autobiography (1937), ch. 2

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.” · Brewsie and Willie (1946)

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

Our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.…During that war we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win? and no one was able to answer it with much precision, until at the end, quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.” · House of Commons, 18 June 1940

Nothing in excess.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

“You are all a lost generation.”

“Remarks are not literature.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing really doing nothing.”

“There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“Our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away.”

“Nothing in excess.”

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