The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring. -Brooks Atkinson

 

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.


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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

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