“ 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. Diane Johnson
“ 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. Diane Johnson
“ Yet—some Frenchman had written—absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones. Diane Johnson
