Alan Brien Quotes

• I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

  Alan Brien

  Doe, Done, Drainage

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• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  Alan Brien

  New York, Food, Cities

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• You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

  Alan Brien

  Home, Winning, Sight

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• When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Agreement, Special

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• The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Fashion, Organized Mind

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