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“The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow...”
“Didnt young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”
“In the travellers world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unkno...”
“The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.”
“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a ...”
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repul...”
“Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”
“In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unkn...”
