" We remember the old world as it had been for a thousand years, so beautiful and diverse, and which, in only thirty years, has crumbled away. When we were young every country still had its own architecture and customs and food. . . . . Now the dreariness! The suburbs of every town uniform all over the world. . . . [O]ur children never saw that world so they cannot share our sadness. One more of the many things that divide us. There is an immense gap between us and them, caused by unshared experience. Never in history have the past and the present been so different; never have the generations been divided as they are now. "
― Nancy Mitford , Don't Tell Alfred (Radlett & Montdore, #3)
![Nancy Mitford quote : We remember the old world as it had been for a thousand years, so beautiful and diverse, and which, in only thirty years, has crumbled away. When we were young every country still had its own architecture and customs and food. . . . . Now the dreariness! The suburbs of every town uniform all over the world. . . . [O]ur children never saw that world so they cannot share our sadness. One more of the many things that divide us. There is an immense gap between us and them, caused by unshared experience. Never in history have the past and the present been so different; never have the generations been divided as they are now.](/image/1142928.jpg)