“If you keep a place clean, people will respect it; if you let it get dirty, they’ll make it worse…Just make the park beautiful and you’ll appeal to the best side of people. They all have it; all you have to do is bring it out.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
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“It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found it, but lived there only a moment, we could count ourselves blessed.”
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“Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.”
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“Levy’s defense is that most people are looking at The Real Housewives as a linear text, like a movie, television show, or a novel. Scholars analyze the shows individually and in a self-contained manner, reading them from start to finish. Anyone with a DVR clogged full of Bravo content knows that this is not the way that the shows are aired or how they are consumed by most people. There is always more than one franchise of The Real Housewives on at any given time, sometimes more than one on the same night. That means the shows shouldn’t be seen as a straight line but as a matrix, where one show can correct the bad impressions made by the others.”
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“The museum is a healing agent. It allows people to understand their past and present and to imagine their future”
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“If you cannot walk more than a block in your shoes, they are not shoes; they are pretty sculptures that you happen to have attached to your feet. You could hang them from your wrists for all the good they are doing you in terms of locomotion. Better to put them on a shelf and admire them from afar.”
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“Which of the myriad irrational beliefs that people have are delusional? In our view, this is the most important ignored question in the study of delusion.”
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“The beauty of realization is a beauty that always takes more time to show itself as beauty than pure beauty does…it is only beauty when the things that follow it are created in its image.”
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“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners, and The Sun Also Rises was its bible.”
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“What do you hope to acquire when you bid at a prestigious evening auction at Sotheby’s? A bundle of things: a painting of course, but hopefully also a new dimension to how people see you. As Robert Lacey described it in his book about Sotheby’s, you are bidding for class, for a validation of your taste.”
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“When the Marchese de Caracciolo wrote to the King of Naples that in England he had discovered a country of ‘22 religions and two sauces,’ these were not words of praise.”
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“…from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige…it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.”
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“While on the subject of men, a brief, loud hurrah for homosexuals and their incredible eye for line, proportion, detail, and style. As a Rome magazine writer said: ‘Every woman over thirty needs a homosexual in her life.’ She needs someone who is genuinely interested in making her look better, perhaps because it is his business. Homosexuals, particularly those in the beauty and fashion field, are both expert and generous with their knowledge.”
