
“Now I am going to tell you the secret to a lasting marriage: Choose a spouse who needs to eat as often as you do. Bruce and I are like toddlers on a big day out. We need a snack, no matter where we are going or how long we are going to be gone. If we are headed out for dinner, we bring a Baggie of cut-up cheese for the car ride to the restaurant.”
Claire Dederer
more infosource: Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 200.
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category: compatability, food, marriage, secret
medium: Memoir
“In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable—which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.”
Marilynne Robinson
more infosource: Gilead (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), 197.
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category: aesthetic, beauty, civilization, identity, language, life, ruins, secret
medium: fiction
via: The Bronze Medal“People wouldn’t know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: “A Rare Spirit, a Rarer Eye,” Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times, March 19, 2010.
category: dress, fashion, secret
medium: newspaper profile


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