All of you young people who served in the war, you are a lost generation. … You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) American expatriate author, feminist

(Attributed)

Quoted by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast, ch. 3 (1964). Also served as the epigraph for The Sun Also Rises (1926).