Sentence of t he Day: from Yiyun Li "To Speak is to Blunder" in Jan. 2, 2017 The New Yorker.
"Often I think that writing is a futile effort; so is reading; so is living. Loneliness is the inability to speak with one another in one's private language."

Quote within a quote of the day--from the same article, but Li quoting Katherine Mansfield's journal (and asking, as I ask doubly: "Are they her thoughts or mine?"): "There is something profound & terrible in this eternal desire to establish contact."