Raymond Sokolov Quotes

#1. Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

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#2. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

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#3. Only the river is free, always changing but always the same ...

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#4. The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can't change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.

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#5. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

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#6. Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

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#7. Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

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