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Hello,about introverts and extroverts:"Hell is other people at breakfast."   That means what??the following is its dpicting:Unless your vision of hell is eating with someone so lost in his own thoughts that the conversation sputters and dies.Thank you for your help.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

**** is other people at breakfast.= Eating with other people (the simple presence of other people at the meal) is a horrible experience. An introvert's feeling, obviously. Doing anything with other people is extremely stressful for an introvert.

Khoff · Answer

"**** is other people" is a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist writer).  "**** is other people at breakfast" makes it more specific.  For introverts, dealing with other people takes energy and is very tiring, so they would not want to have to do it first thing in the morning.

Clive · Answer

Hi,

A small further comment.

**** is other people. This is a serious statement.

**** is other people at breakfast. The incongruity of 'at breakfast' adds a somewhat humorous tone to the statement

Clive

Khoff · Answer

Yes, definitely.

Clive · Answer

Hi Khoff,

You probably know this quip. It's supposed to be a quote from Kurt Vonnegut

To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Clive

Bepleased · Answer

Hi Khoff,How to associate "**** is other people at breakfast" with "unless clause"??"**** is other people at breakfast." the following is :Unless your vision of **** is eating with someone so lost in his own thoughts that the conversation sputters and dies?                Thank you for your help.

Anonymous · Answer

Monday, March 26, 2012

New York Times correction on Jean-Paul Sartre quote in newspaper on March 13, 2012

from the NEW YORK TIMES (this is what I saw today with my own eyes in my local paper here in Taiwan)
CORRECTION

A Lens column earlier this
month about introverts and
extraverts misquoted the
French philosopher Jean-
Paul Sartre. The correct
quote is "**** is other peo-
ple," not "**** is other peo-
ple at breakfast."

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............
March 27 issue of the New York Times Weekly (international editions in 26 nations)correcting misquote
from March 13 issueat breakfast."

[The misquote was conducted by Kevin Delaney, staff writer at the Times, who apparently
picked up the misquote without knowing it was a misquote from reading a recent
Huffington Post post about Jonathan Rauch's humorous 2003 take on the real Sartre quote
and Susan Cain's book about introverts and extraverts. Kevin has opted not to respond to
this antiblogger's dozen emails requesting an explanation, and neither has Dr Rauch or any
of his spokespeople at THE ATLANTIC magazine, although Atlantic writer James Fallows did
say he would pass on my query letter to Dr Rauch, who he knows personally.'

Anonymous · Answer

New York Times correction: **** is not other people at breakfast

by Craig Silverman Published Mar. 28, 2012 9:06 am
The http://www.nytimesglobal.com/intl-weekly/euroreach.aspx, an 8 to 12-page supplement inserted in newspapers around the world, published this correction earlier in the week:

A Lens column earlier this month about introverts and extroverts misquoted the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The correct quote is “**** is other people,” not “**** is other people at breakfast.”

The New York Times International Weekly corrects a mangled Sartre quote.
Though not available online, I received a photo of the print version of the correction from Taiwan-based journalist Dan Bloom. (The original, incorrect item is placed to the left of the correction.)
Bloom is the eagle-eyed reader who spotted the Sartre misquote last week and requested a correction. (Poynter’s Andrew Beaujon previously wrote about this quote, which has taken on a life of its own.)
Bloom has since written several articles and blog posts about how this misquote made it into circulation. Here’s him writing for The Wrap:

This is how things work in the Internet Age.
A witty writer in Boston sets up a fake quote from the late Jean-Paul Sartre back in 2003 in an article about introverts and extroverts that was published in the Atlantic Monthly online, and almost 10 years later the fake quote — “**** is other people at breakfast” — is still going strong on blogs, emails and bonafide websites.
Very few people have bothered to check if the quote is correct, since the correct quote from Sartre’s famous play “No Exit” is actually, “**** is other people.” In French, Sartre wrote it out as, “L’enfer, c’est les autres.”

The writer in question is Jonathan Rauch, who playfully altered the Sartre quote in a piece about introverts and extroverts. Bloom notes that the Rauch quote was reused in this recent Huffington Post blog post about personality types, which Bloom believes was consulted by the Times writer who used the incorrect quote in the paper.

Bepleased · Answer

Hi,It's very interesting that a fake quote instead of the original.But how to know a witty writer in Boston stes up a fake quote?And the "Bloom" means what?How to associate "**** is other people" with "unless your vision of **** is eating with someone so lost in his own thoughts that the conversation sputters and dies."?Could you clear up my conundrum, I will be extremely grateful. Thank you!

Anonymous · Answer

dear bepleased. Mr Sartre never said **** is other people at breakfast. The New York Times made a huge massive giant blunger of monumental proportions. Sartre did say in his play titled "Huis Clos" or in English titled "No Exist" in the very last lines of the play that "**** is other people" and what he meant is open to interpretation. Some say it means that all our troubles on Earth begin and end with "other human beings" who make our life miserable with wars, sexism, hatred, greed, communism, and other things like that. You decide. Here is the exact quote from Mr Sartre who is dead now:

The character naned GARCIN says in very http://www.notmyshoes.net/monologues/garcin.html of the play:

''This bronze. [Strokes it thoughtfully.] Yes, now's the moment; I'm looking at this thing on the mantelpiece, and I understand that I'm in ****. I tell you, everything's been thought out beforehand. They knew I'd stand at the fireplace, stroking this thing of bronze, with all those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. [He swings around abruptly.] What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. [Laughs.] So this is ****. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. **** is - other people at breakfast!''

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Monday, March 26, 2012

New York Times correction on Jean-Paul Sartre quote in newspaper on March 13, 2012

New York Times correction: **** is not other people at breakfast

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