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“Room service? Send up a larger room."

[A Night at the Opera]”
― Groucho Marx

“He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day鈥檚 Journey into Night

“The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.”
― Paul Quarrington, The Ravine

“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached the top, there would be one breath-taking moment when the car would tip precariously into space, over an incline six stories steep and then plunge, like a plunging plane. She buried her head against him, fearing to look at the park spread below. He forced himself to look: thousands of little people and hundreds of bright little stands, and over it all the coal-smoke pall of the river factories and railroad yards. He saw in that moment the whole dim-lit city on the last night of summer; the troubled streets that led to the abandoned beaches, the for-rent signs above overnight hotels and furnished basement rooms, moving trolleys and rising bridges: the cagework city, beneath a coalsmoke sky.”
― Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

“The chances of satisfying my renewed appetite for literary exchanges increased once I began to visit the library more frequently and make my way from the hotel to City Lights Bookstore at 261 Columbus Avenue. For all I was learning about the role its founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, had played in helping to nurture, promote, and sustain the talented souls who made the Beat Movement possible, City Lights became a kind of sacred space for me.”
― Aberjhani, Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.”
― Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces

“North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as 'duck.' One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy鈥攖hey wouldn't tell me the breed鈥攂ut then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadn't seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.”
― Claudio Magris, Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

“Every great corporation does one thing well, and in Marriott鈥檚 case it鈥檚 to help guests disappear. The indistinct architecture, the average service, the room-temperature, everything. You鈥檙e gone, blended away by the stain-disguising carpet patterns, the art that soothes you even when your back鈥檚 turned. And you don鈥檛 even miss yourself, that鈥檚 Marriott鈥檚 great discovery. Invisibility, the ideal vacation. No more anxiety about your role, your place. Rest here, under our cloak. Don鈥檛 fidget, it's just your face that we鈥檙e removing. You won鈥檛 be needing it until you leave, and here鈥檚 a claim check. Don鈥檛 worry if you lose it.”
― Walter Kirn, Up in the Air

“There are some females in the world who slip away from the public eye. You might see them walking past you in the lobby or behind the tinted windows of a limousine. They travel so much, you might only meet them in hotels. Last night, you wondered if you鈥檇 ever see those intelligent women again. How can any man be good enough for them?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Oh, Lawd, I done forgot Harlem!

Say, you colored folks, hungry a long time in 135th Street--they got swell music at the Waldorf-Astoria. It sure is a mighty nice place to shake hips in, too. There's dancing after supper in a big warm room. It's cold as hell on Lenox Avenue. All you've had all day is a cup of coffee. Your pawnshop overcoat's a ragged banner on your hungry frame. You know, downtown folks are just crazy about Paul Robeson! Maybe they'll like you, too, black mob from Harlem. Drop in at the Waldorf this afternoon for tea. Stay to dinner. Give Park Avenue a lot of darkie color--free for nothing!”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“We drove across the Red Square past Lenin's Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin--and stopped a block away at the Grand Hotel.

Our rooms were ready for us--clean and comfortable, with hot and cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants were there, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Everything that a hotel for white folks at home would have--except that, quite truthfully, there was no toilet paper. And no Jim Crow.

Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial distinctions. That's the main reason we had come to Moscow.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

“Hospitals are hotels for sick people.”
― Steven Magee

“Part of the motive behind devolution was to allow those different identities to be expressed. But what had taken the place of the country house was not a home but a hotel: 'You pay for services rendered and in return you get a room, you get room services - beyond that, you are free to do whatever you like so long as you don't disturb the other guests.' But this model failed to generate loyalty. 'A hotel is somewhere you don't belong. It isn't a home. It's a convenience. And therefore when society becomes a hotel, as it has become in the past fifty years, you get no sense of national identity, of belonging, of common history, of common good, of moral concerns, of social solidarity - and that is where we are now.' [Quoting Jonathan Sacks.]”
― Vernon Bogdanor, Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution

“Mostly, in the restaurant business, [managers] are former cooks still capable of pinch-hitting in the kitchen, just as in hotels they are likely to be former clerks, and paid a salary of only about $400 a week. But everyone knows they have crossed over to the other side, which is, crudely put, corporate as opposed to human. Cooks want to prepare tasty meals, servers want to serve them graciously, but managers are there for only one reason--to make sure that money is made for some theoretical entity, the corporation, which exists far away in Chicago or New York, if a corporation can be said to have a physical existence at all.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“Jessie, a fifty-year-old woman with no skills, job opportunities were limited. She may have had a historic family background, but pedigree was of little use when it came to job skills.

A few years later, Daisy ghost-wrote an article, 鈥淥n the Fourteenth Floor,鈥� a first-person account of a woman鈥攁 mother of two daughters鈥攚ho has run out of money and moves to New York City in search of a job. Retail work is available, but she wisely decides that she would not be a good candidate to be a saleswoman. One day, she lunches with a friend at a large hotel in the city and notices that the hotel is bursting with business. Foot traffic in the lobby is thick and without letup. The woman realizes that this is a thriving operation and most likely has job positions available. On a whim, the woman applies for a job, not really knowing what position they would place her in. The manager says she can begin the next day as a chambermaid for thirty-six dollars a month, along with room and board.

鈥淥n the Fourteenth Floor,鈥� rich in detail as to the woman鈥檚 responsibilities and day-to-day activities, is sprinkled with descriptions of her interactions with the clientele. The author also writes of a friendly co-worker named Zayda with whom she becomes close friends. Daisy would give homage to Zayda later in her early career at Street & Smith.

Forty years later, Esther would tell stories of the time when the three women lived at a hotel in Manhattan. They lived at the Hotel Astor, Esther said, and socialized with Arturo Toscanini鈥檚 wife Carla. Esther remembered Mrs. Toscanini cooking traditional Italian dinners for her and her sister in her suite, much to the consternation of the hotel management. Although there is no documentation proving this, and neither Jessie nor Daisy mention living at the Astor in their journals, Esther鈥檚 reminisces about socializing with the wife of the legendary conductor line up chronologically with the time that she lived at the hotel.”
― Laurie Powers, Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine

“While many say Schrager鈥檚 work is about design, it isn鈥檛鈥攊t鈥檚 about ideas and experiences. Ian uses the power of his ideas to tap into what he calls the 鈥渃ollective unconsciousness, the ethereal, elusive, and hard-to-define magic and energy.鈥� He understands the power of this intangible, emotional place and uses it to connect deeply with his customers. He knows that 鈥渢he way a product makes you feel is more important than how it looks. The goal is to create experiences that people will remember, to touch them in emotional and visceral ways, to lift their spirits, to assault their senses, and to wow them in tasteful ways.鈥� But just as important, Schrager under- stands that an amazing experience can鈥檛 be created from ideas alone, knowing that 鈥済ood execution is just as important as a good idea.鈥� And he has consistently manifested his creative potential because he has regularly married the four key elements that create value in our new age: purpose, creativity, execution, and emotion.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“What Schrager did when he developed the lifestyle hotel was apply his creativity鈥攖hrough design, story- telling, and programming鈥攖o shift the customer鈥檚 perspective and produce significant value. After all, many lifestyle hotels are just underperforming hotel assets that have been repositioned using these creative elements.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

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“In a hotel room, you can be anywhere in the world.”
― Adele Threadgold

“There are no spa hotels on the road to success.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Hotel rooms have an aphrodisiac quality.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“My girlfriend would offer to pay for hotels for her secret lovers to come and visit her!”
― Steven Magee

“And after some months, the exposure to beauty and wealth took a toll on his mind. He could not pinpoint it at first. Andrei thought human change came from decisions, but actually it came from observation. The brain was a special piano whose song history was never forgotten; one wrong key could destroy the instrument and necessitate years of healing. For Andrei, the multitude of wealthy guests, their walks, accommodation requests, secrets, women, and jewels had achieved his natural lust for luxury ten times over and turned him into a complete ghost.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Then the doors closed throughout the hotel. Everyone locked himself in behind the double doors and each was left alone with himself and his secrets.”
― Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel

“Hospitals are the equivalent of resorts for sick people.”
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