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.
ATTRIBUTION:
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet. “31 December, 1947,” The Table Talk of W.H. Auden, compiled by Alan Ansen, ed. Nicholas Jenkins (1990).
