Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
First line to each performance.
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
“A restaurant is an unusual business, charged as it is with stewardship of one of the fundamental processes of our animal biology. Until breathing and excretion can be commodified, the restaurant manager inhabits a rarified sphere whose only other residents are obstetricians, undertakers, and whores.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 13, 2005, Flash Fries, http://www.sfbg.com/39/41/x_edible_complex.html
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Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
The Chorus of the song. The only part that is actually sung in the song. At the end of the performance, after the first line is sung, Arlo will quickly add in the phrase "Excepting Alice."
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising
Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 4 : The Anal Emotional Territiorial Circuit, p. 68
“It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
"Fidelity"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind (2008)
“I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Source: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 180
Context: I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright
Rent (1996)
“I can’ t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.”
Donald Ervin Knuth (1938) American computer scientist
[Knuth, Donald, 2002, All Questions Answered, Notices of the AMS, 49, 3, 321, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf, PDF]