"The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore."

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Source : Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”

Kate Simon

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“Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.”
“I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.”
“Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.”

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”
“I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.”
“Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.”
“Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.”
“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.”
“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

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