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“New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.”

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Author:Susanna Moore

“What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.”

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Author:Teju Cole

“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.”

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Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.”

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Book:Etiquette, Etc: A Concise Guide with a Fresh Look

Source: Etiquette, Etc: A Concise Guide with a Fresh Look

“Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!”

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Author:Red Buttons

“I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.”

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Author:Melissa Rivers

“I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designers have events to lure customers or editors or any of that - it was about a show. If there was a dinner or a party, people would go out after. New York nightlife was about late nights and dancing.”

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Author:Roopal Patel

“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.”