“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no...” – Joe Fox, You've Got Mail ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email]

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!

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