"The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness."

-- Mark Kurlansky

#New York Quotes #Beer Quotes #Eggs Quotes

“I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.”
“It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.”
“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
“Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.”
“I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.”
“I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.”
“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.”

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