What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. N...o one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That's the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. C...holera, "some." [At] Planters' Hotel. Mem:--Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been spending my first night in an American "summer hotel," and I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining ca...llow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a ...hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it.... I edit people's clothes, dressing them infallibly in the right lines.... I change everyone's coiffure--except those that please me--and these I gaze at with such satisfaction that I become suspect, I edit people's tones of voice, their laughter, their words. I change their gestures, their photographs. I change the books I read, the music I hear ... It's this incessant, unavoidable observation, this need to distinguish and impose, that has made me an editor. I can't make things. I can only revise what has been made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment,... From livid curtain's hue, a tangram emerges: a country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Popeye, forced as you know to flee the country One musty gusty evening, by the schemes of his wizened, duplicate father, jea...lous of the apartment And all that it contains, myself and spinach In particular, heaves bolts of loving thunder At his own astonished becoming...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than ...I had. Then I moved up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »