Quotes about 1920s

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How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called — John Darnton, Almost a Family: A Memoir
The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses th — Lucy Moore, Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The differ — Dita Von Teese, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese
In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. — Lucy Foley, The Book of Lost and Found
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its gre — Mona Rodriguez
Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381). — Mona Rodriguez
Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57 — Mona Rodriguez
His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page. — Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie
When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silen — Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy, Roscoe
The spicy sweet fragrance of the large full blooms, which rambled over the side and top of an arched metal framework, we — Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps
There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love. — Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps
Alexandra took the rose and lifted it to her face. The fragrance was intoxicating and the soft petals tickled her lips, — Ellen Read, The Dragon Sleeps
Momma was with the pony last night. Lily and me have him in the mornings, and we give him a wash with the shammy cloths — Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after — Ruadhán J. McElroy
The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of t — Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Son, it’s easy tae be guid oan a fu’ belly. It’s when a man’s goat two bites an’ wan o’ them he’ll share, ye ken whit he — William McIlvanney, Docherty
Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creat — Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
She murmured, “I love the imagery of Sappho, the warm summer air across the velvety darkness, the lover between love’s t — Paul A. Myers, A Farewell in Paris