I wonder:
Does anyone out there "dine"?
I, for one, don't. I "eat."
It's lunchtime.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
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Words to live by
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 5
Guten Appetit! I "dine" only only when followed by "out" on a particular incident, i.e., when I am able to regale fellow diners (attendees of dinner parties to which I am fortunate to be invited) with the details of said incident. Cf. "Six Degrees of Separation", which largely consists of Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) dining out on the bizzarre events that they have been privileged to be part of. Cameo appearance of Kitty Carlisle Hart worth the price of admission! To tell the truth!
BTW, your system does not accept my HTML tags, which explains why the movie title is not in italics. Just to let you know that I tried.
Hilarious, Norman! I like the idea of someone who dines out on a story, sometimes for years.
I'd forgotten that Kitty Carlisle Hart is in Six Degrees. But I saw her again not too long ago in Radio Days.
To make italics here, just add < i > and < / i > (without the spaces).
P.S.: Kitty Carlisle Hart has a website: The Official Website of Kitty Carlisle Hart.
Thanks, Michael! I don't use HTML a lot, so I always forget the slash in the close, which was the problem. You will recall that Kitty Carlisle's cameo in Radio Days was a song about the man shortage ("They're either too old or too young"), which segues into the episode with the husband-chasing aunt Bea (Dianne Wiest) and invites her date home for a glass of milk. He was brought to tears when he heard a song in the background. It reminded him of his late fiancé, Leonard. Well, that was the end of that. Poor Bea. Not as bad as being abandoned during the War of the Worlds.
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