Sublime

whose aura probably set off car alarms up and down the hills.

Elliott Erwitt

He warned the students against any effort by an editor to inject his own point of view into a writer’s work or to try to make him something other than what he is.

The former associate editor in charge of the magazine’s SOCIETY PAGES feature had once referred to Skip Atwater as an emotional tampon, though there were plenty of people who could verify that she had been a person with all kinds of personal baggage of her own. As with institutional politics everywhere, the whole thing got very involved.

is good-looking in a kind of unhappy way.

someone once attributed to me: “the stubbornness of an idealist and the soul of a street fighter.” After

Iris Murdoch’s words: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”

By summer Scott and Ernest were seeing more and more of each other, occasionally at the home of Gertrude Stein.

Maria Popova,