"The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers."

-- Adam Gopnik

#New York Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ballâ€”why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.”
“Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2015). “Starfarers”, p.488, Open Road Media
“I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.”
“Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.”
“What... are you?" she choked out. "No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess.”
“I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.”

Source : "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.
“I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.”

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