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Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can’t wear grey trousers.
James Joyce • Ulysses
hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither,
George Eliot • Middlemarch
T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for
... See moreAlan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
George Eliot • Middlemarch
by Kenneth Koch
You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What’s true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.
There isn’t time enough, my friends–
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends–
To find the time to have love... See more
Madeleine Dore • You want a social life, with friends
It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour.