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• Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. - Gertrude Stein
• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
  - Ernest Hemingway
• I don't ski; I don't snowboard. To get through winter in Minnesota I drink coffee. Every Sunday that I can I visit a new coffee shop (or sometimes an old favorite) and sit down with a book, a coffee, and sometimes a decadent pastry. And thus, I have something to look forward to in the cold, snowy winter.