Diana Vreeland - On Nostalgia
I loathe nostalgia. One night at dinner in Santo Domingo at the Oscar de la Rentas’, Swifty Lazar, the literary agent, turned to me and said, “The problem with you, dollface”—that’s what he always calls me—“is that your whole world is nostalgic.” “Listen, Swifty,” I said, “we all have our own ways of making a living, so shut up!” Then I punched him in the nose.  He was quite startled. He picked up a china plate and put it u

On Wearing a Tie Well - Part 7
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On Wearing a Tie Well - Part 6
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On Wearing a Tie Well - Part 5
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On Prophets - Martin Luther King, Jr
Abraham Heschel, The Prophets: We and the prophet have no language in common. To us the moral state of society, for all its stains and spots, seems fair and trim; to the prophet it is dreadful. So many deeds of charity are done, so much decency radiates day and night; yet to the prophet satiety of the conscience is prudery and flight from responsibility. Our standards are modest; our sense of injustice tolerable, timid; our moral indignation impermanent; yet human violence is interminable, unbearable, permanent. To us life is often serene, in the prophet’s eye the world reels in confusion. The prophet makes no concession to man’s capacity