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"The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together." - Hemingway

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I think it may have been in a British newspaper, but I was reading the other day about a writer getting kicked out of a café in New Zealand, I assume Auckland, for staying longer than an hour after only ordering a coffee and brioche. When he pointed out to the manager, and then to the owner, that the venue was half-empty at the time, he was banned from …

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