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A writer is in
danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a
year go past without finding himself in his rightful place
of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of
the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
Of course
great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors
to the particular societies they service.
-- Joan Didion
1934-, American Essayist
Doorman -- a
genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help
you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
-- Dorothy Kilgallen
The hotel was
once where things coalesced, where you could meet both
townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how
you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and
dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys
every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler
exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed
in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
-- William Trogdon
1939-, American Author
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