I don't especially enjoy going out to evenings where someone gets up and performs - or where there's entertainment. I much prefer talk. Good conversation is rare and becoming increasingly so. Nowadays, the custom is to go to a restaurant where it's impossible to get a conversation going in all that din. It's totally wonderful when you can experience an evening at someone's house - a small intimate gathering - when a good talker takes over and stimulates a good argument.
A little restaurant? Nothing more tiresome. Good cooks, jolly fellows - that's what makes a dinner.
-- Diana Vreeland, from her book D.V.
Oh, Diana, sometimes that's my favorite type of evening, as well.
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