December 2009
5 posts
“This year, I have committed more faults than ever before and I have never been a...”
– Victor Hugo, in a letter to Victor Pavie from July 25, 1833 (via non-specific)
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“It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York. I...”
– Joan Didion (via thesoundingbored)
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the cocktail party
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
—T. S. Eliot
“It really expounds on the self-conscious dorky nature of Canada, as epitomized...”
– your beauty must be rubbing off.: i urge you all to read the piece on poutine in this week’s new yorker (the food issue!)
November 2009
16 posts
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre