I remember an ice cream parlor in Tulsa that had a thing called a pig’s dinner. It was like a very big banana split in a wooden dish made to look like a pig’s trough. If you ate it all they gave you a certificate saying that you ate it all.
—Joe Brainard, I Remember, Notting Hill Editions, 2021 (1975)
Because the Iran you see from the inside… is a very different place than the Iran you know from the news. Nowhere else I’ve been has the disconnect been so extreme between what one sees and feels from the people and what one sees and hears from the government.
—Anthony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain shone a different light on the Middle East, CNN, 2018

— You know, that we don’t have very much hope together.

— Have we all that much apart?
Separate Tables (1958). realizado por Delbert Mann.