I walked up to a restaurant entrance at the same time as this guy and he held the first door for me and then I held the second door for him and he said "we call that the Midwestern two-step" with a laugh and I've been thinking about it all day.
"we're all sort of making it up at the end of the day" is definitely one of those beautifully true and reusable quotes originating from a context you wouldn't expect*
*trumps lawyer said this in court today when probed on what he is basing a legal assertion he made on
I used to think you were a “I’m going to sit in a dark room and brood” sort of teenager, but now I’ve just found out you were in a punk band so now I’ve got a mental picture of a teenage version of you and your mates loitering around a small town with god save the queen playing in the back. Where on the scale were you?
“a community without romance risks being brutish and crass, superficial and brittle, cruel and even muderous. . . i don’t mean just romantic romance. i don’t just mean erotic romance. . . i mean the romance that allows us to soften our voices when we see each other.”