“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.” IfsThinkingWorldKindAnimalTravelComfortableClothesDressesZoosDisneylandArtifactsQuaintFlora Author:Alison Lurie
“But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.” IfsThinkingWayKindPersonsDoeSelfSometimesProveRateShockDestructiveBreakfastProve ItSelf DestructiveSecond Rate Book:Real People: A Novel Source: Real People: A Novel