In my latest Epoch Times column I say the death of Rex Murphy is a terrible loss especially because we have also lost the kind of place he held in our national life.
“it was Fran Lebowitz, I think, who said that God created Los Angeles so insomniacs in New York would have a place to call in the middle of the night.”
A writer whose name I did not record in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991
“Hollywood’s the kind of place where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.”
Philip Marlow, quoted on USA Network Feb. 19, 1989
“He took a Nez approach. As in the opposite of Zen.”
One of mine, from November 20, 2005
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.”
Ann Landers, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 8, 2009
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”
Fred Allen, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)
“Why Japan Is Building Its Own Version of ChatGPT /Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture”
Headline and deck on article in Scientific American September 15, 2023
“H.G. Wells’ description of the town of Bromstead – ‘a dull, useless boiling up of human activities, an immense clustering of futilities.’”
William H. Whyte The Organization Man