"

INTERVIEWER: What was it about the twenties that inspired people like yourself and Broun?

DOROTHY PARKER: 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. Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don’t forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren’t. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.

"

- Dorothy Parker on “the lost generation” and hard work, part of The Paris Review’s fantastic historic interviews. (via explore-blog)

(via explore-blog)

Source:
  1. daretothink reblogged this from explore-blog
  2. latenightwhatfeature reblogged this from explore-blog
  3. blahjustblah reblogged this from explore-blog
  4. ephemeralintoxication reblogged this from explore-blog
  5. circlesoffire reblogged this from explore-blog
  6. redsesame reblogged this from explore-blog
  7. errantcloud reblogged this from explore-blog
  8. lumlination reblogged this from explore-blog
  9. alwaysoffsides reblogged this from explore-blog
  10. awake-my-sowl reblogged this from explore-blog
  11. tophattedteaparties reblogged this from explore-blog
  12. repeatrewind reblogged this from explore-blog
  13. barelyconcealednuance reblogged this from explore-blog
  14. cxbean reblogged this from explore-blog
  15. thunder-nipples reblogged this from explore-blog