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"We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat."
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irony
loss
drinking
audrey-hepburn
breakfast-at-tiffany-s
bar
the-recession
new-yorkers
bars
new-beginnings
snobs
cat
vanity
failure
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Gillian Flynn |
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She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
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kindness
love
histrionic-people
obnoxious-people
self-centered-people
snobs
selflessness
selfishness
gifts
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Stephen Chbosky |
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Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...
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kindergarten
snobs
yacht
sweet-valley
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Francine Pascal |