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“Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.”

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.”

“I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.”

Five Feet Car Thousand Twenties Squares Costumes Twenty Five Props Warehouse Memorabilia

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.”

“Losing builds character. So, if you're the loser in your family, don't worry. 'Cos twenty years form now, that perfect can do no wrong brother of yours is going to show up at your house, bald, fat, divorced, with six kids who all hate him and he's going to ask you for money. And because of your character, you're going to look him right in the eyes and you're going to say, You know what, I'll give you some money. If you mow my lawn and detail my car. Oh yeah, then you can shampoo the tail. Loser.”

“Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.”

Ifs Hard America Turns Three Car Conversation Percent Twenties Addiction Perceive Meals What If Compassionate Loved Ones Topics

Author:Angel Grant

“Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.”

“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.”

Knows Wells Life Is Walks Steps Five Car Right Now Twenties Pace Life Is Short Twenty Five Happily Ever After Ever After Old Car

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.”

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.”

Firsts Said Century Car Bed Twenties Tanks

Book:To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.”

Littles Book Use Lying Reading House Car Missing Bed Twenties Tables Glasses Edges Core Kitchen Apples Bags Bathroom Stairs Sock Forks Kitchen Table Bookmarks Reading Glasses

Author:Kami Garcia

“I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.”

World Children Littles Made Book Done Wanted Joy Certain Asks Father Common Boys Car Son Twenties Disappointment Speed Wounds Abandon Rugby

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.”

Home Purpose Walks Environment Week Minutes Car Type Walking Office Percent Twenties Distance Add Average Miles These Days Shopping Yards Trails Malls Supermarkets Appalachian Trail

Author:Bill Bryson