"Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept"

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Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Graeme Simsion

#Restaurants Quotes

“I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.”
“Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.”
“I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.”
“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”
“Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good.”
“I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.”

Source : "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.
“In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.”

Source : Eugene Davidson (1997). “The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism”, p.365, University of Missouri Press
“Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.”

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