Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.