It began with Halifax mistaking Hitler for a footman and almost handing him his coat. And then Hitler was Hitler for five hours: sulking, shouting, digressing, denouncing. He talked about how much he hated the press. He talked about the
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“So much for objective journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a gross contradiction in terms.”
― Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
― Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
“I know a couple who uses shopping to dispel an unyielding sadness that seems to overwhelm them day by day. Whenever their depression becomes more than they can bear, they buy new furniture for their living room. And it helps—for a while. But in due course the sadness engulfs them again, and they don’t know why. But I think I do. It’s because the furniture doesn’t fulfill a dream; it’s purely an accessory, an accoutrement, to their otherwise-empty lives.”
― First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living
― First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living
“I have eaten good food in unprepossessing locales, but I doubt the disparity between the crude, shabby atmosphere of that nameless cement-block dispensary of protein and redemption and the quality of the lunch laid on by the butcher of Zegota will ever be matched.”
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles—or even if some eminent Victorians, examining their own prose styles, realized, perhaps dismayed, that from the look of it, they would have to go in for polar exploration.”
― The Annie Dillard Reader
― The Annie Dillard Reader
“Detail is the antidote to boredom, and tends to keep depression at bay.”
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
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