Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Theodore ZeldinNever before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
Theodore ZeldinThe great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
Theodore ZeldinThe great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.
Theodore Zeldin