“ My gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all? William Faulkner
“ In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone. Ernest Hemingway
“ The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indi… Malcolm Cowley
“ Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for… Harold Edmund Stearns
“ We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so. Harold Edmund Stearns
“ The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The l… Harold Edmund Stearns
“ They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses aft… Malcolm Cowley
“ I know what you're doing, though.""I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I seem to have lost my own grasp of it entirely. Grace Burrowes
