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For Paris is, according to its legend, the city where everyone loses his head, and his morals, lives through at least one histoire d’amour, ceases, quite, to arrive anywhere on time, and thumbs his nose at the Puritans—the city, in brief, where all become drunken on the fine old air of freedom. This legend, in the fashion of legends, has this much
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
I am always impressed by a well-written menu, one that is informative and appetizing without slipping into pretentious nonsense. Here, for example, is a London restaurant’s attempt to justify the exorbitant price of its whitebait: “The tiny fresh fish are tossed by our chef for a few fleeting seconds into a bath of boiling oil, and then removed bef
... See morePeter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
EB White:
... See more“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and ta
In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed
Adam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
