Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
Well, their piety is more evolved, said Mrs. Pace. In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the smug. In France, it appears, there is a third type, the worldly.
Yet—some Frenchman had written—absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.