Quotes Tagged With :50s

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

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will....

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated....

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was....

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

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting....

... family men, Claude.""Then why aren't they home with their families?""You haven't been listening....

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

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

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