Quotes Tagged With :50s

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth....

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued....

After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles....

You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons....

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't....

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom....