He had a right not to do that.
You buttered your bread – now
lie in it.
Sports writers have to be the
best writers on the newspaper, because they have nothing to write about.
“I’d like to thank you for …”
When someone said or wrote this, her response: "So, do it."
There can never
be too much garlic/onions/tomatoes.
You can’t call home in a war.
Eleanor said this to Peter over the phone when he was in Sarajevo, about to go to
Kosovo in March ’98. Turned out she was right. But he had to find out through
direct experience.
All is allusion.
Language
is nothing without allusions. And families have their own language.
This
is me,
packing.
(Or preparing to leave. Or anything, except napping.)
Echoes
the earlier practice of writing on the back of photographs. This is me at
the beach, or, This is me and the dog.
Whadaya
want, willya?
Eleanor's
comment: That came from your grandfather.
Shortcuts are important, in case someone has to
leave quickly to go eat some garlic or chocolate.
Or at least that’s what you tell your mother.
A
good follow-up to any report on how well her sons were doing and how safely
they
drive.
The wedding
wasn't Jewish. You know, no food.
Forwarded but not read.
Based on a letter from Victor Victoroff:
Filed but not read
But
Mom, all the other 70 year-olds get to go out
at night!
She thought she might have left something in the car, but her mother
said, "Don’t go out there. It’s night!"
You can't say that isn't pretty.
I'm sorry.
Precedes: There's nothing wrong with this day. Or any such statement.
You
know that, don't you?
(From
her Aunt Helen)
Never
cross a picket line.
"There are two kinds of people in the world:
Chocolates and Veals ...
Chocolates love chocolate and rare roast beef; they either love or hate cats. Veals like veal. Veals
make lists. Even lists of lists. Chocolates don't make lists. When they make
them, they forget to take them to the store. When they remember to take them
to the store, they forget to use them."
Eleanor: Very good. But remember, a
real chocolate needs an entourage of at least 5 veals to stay alive.
Anything worth doing is
worth doing fairly well.
We
got something from the Shoreline School District about "excellence in
education."
She said we're not for excellence, we're for doing things pretty well.
In
Italy, they have a law against Ugly.
A-Archeo Archeo-Bart Bart-Book Book-Cac Cac...
Well, we
can explain. When Eleanor was young, she used to lie upside down over the
back of the couch and memorize the
encyclopedia volume titles.
Here she recites them, at age 88
(November 2008). She did this upon request until at least age 98.
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