Maxim Restaurant

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“The maxim of courts is that manner is power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed “unwittingly,” the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)