Archives for August 25, 2020

From 2004:

“This is absolutely the only place to live,” I told her. “Nowhere else.”

“Oh, I guess it’s all right to visit other places,” she replied. “And you could live somewhere else for six months, if you had to. Or maybe even a year.”

“But only if you don’t give up your lease,” I said firmly.

We giggled, knowing perfectly well that neither one of us had the slightest intention of going anywhere else for more than a week or two….

Read the whole thing here.

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Charles Lamb (quoted in The Athenaeum, January 4, 1834)