Cafes Quotes

• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  Zoe Kravitz

  People, Watches, Favorites Things

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• I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

  Sophia Myles

  People, Watches, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

  David Suchet

  Bored, Watches, Days Off

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  Fannie Flagg

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Pain, Drama, Joy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

  Vivian Gornick

  Mind, Adequate, Language

  Vivian Gornick (1996). “Approaching Eye Level”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Everyday, Goes On

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• I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

  Jessica Chastain

  Dog, Beach, Morning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Brain, Linked

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• I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

  Eric Weiner

  Home, Thinking, Should Have

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Track, Mind

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Art, Stories, Lessons

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story.

  Jean-Claude Carriere

  Dream, Character, Paris

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• You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

  Chris LeDoux

  Kind, Habit, Break

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• I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

  Chris LeDoux

  Done, Firsts, Rodeo

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• All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

  Joni Mitchell

  Fate, Dark, Drunk

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• CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

  Bob Lutz

  Trying, Size, Obesity

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• I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

  Jonathan Lethem

  World, Laptops, Humans

  "Talk time: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

  Ernest Hemingway

  People, Together, Lost

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

  Linda McCartney

  People, Cooking, Six

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• The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Museums, Cities, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Finding Yourself, Looks

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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