"Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people"

-- Gay Talese

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“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
“You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.”
“With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.”
“The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press
“The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.22, Anchor
“Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.”
“Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church ... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.”

Source : "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.
“I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.”

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