A Literary New Years Eve.

A few of my favourite New Year words from the literary world as we see out the old decade and welcome in the new.

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.”

― T.S. Eliot, ‘Four Quartets

“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”

— W.H. Auden

“I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.”

— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.

Brad Paisley

Happy 2020 to everyone. Milly.,

2 thoughts on “A Literary New Years Eve.

  1. An impressive share! I have jusdt forwarded this onto a friend
    who has been condducting a little research on this.
    And he actually ordered me breakfast duue to the fact that I found it for him…
    lol. So leet me reword this…. Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanjx for spending time to talk about tis
    matter here onn your site.

    Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s