Quotes about 50s

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After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty — Claire Dyer, The Perfect Affair
Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world — Clark Zlotchew
When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It — Clark Zlotchew, Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided throu — Clark Zlotchew, Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being exclu — Sara Sheridan
In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum th — Sara Sheridan
He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat — Sara Sheridan, London Calling
The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled w — David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan
Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven — James Ellroy, The Big Nowhere
You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at — Anne Roiphe, Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every d — Sara Sheridan
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry. — Jerry Lee Lewis
Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has — Lucy Foley, The Invitation
That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life. — Lucy Foley, The Invitation
People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true. — Julian Houston, New Boy
Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected — a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernit — Sara Sheridan
... family men, Claude.""Then why aren't they home with their families?""You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It ta — Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall
The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and — Katharine Hepburn, The Making of The African Queen, or: How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind