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  1. author: Richard Kadrey
  2. content: "The best restaurants in any town are the ones that are open 24 hours. It\
  3. \ doesn't matter if the restaurant is clean or attractive, if the food is good or\
  4. \ even edible. What makes 24-hour places special is that whatever is going on inside\
  5. \ them at any moment \u2014 eating, crashing from a night high and wild, a secret\
  6. \ lovers' rendezvous, a drug deal, a traveler getting her bearings in a new town\
  7. \ \u2014 will continue to go on there until the place burns down or goes out of\
  8. \ business. These places sell time, not food. All 24-hour restaurants are social\
  9. \ neutral zones, outside the normal boundaries of time and space, which exist for\
  10. \ most of us in neatly packaged eight-hour segments: one for sleep, one for work\
  11. \ and one for life. These diners are the alien bases in our midst. Area 51 with\
  12. \ curly fries and a Coke."
  13. id: d905d7bf-3a20-4bc1-83f9-f69120196f67