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“New Orleans was the ideal town for an underachiever, a place where whiling away Saturdays on the stoop or on projects so underproductive they wouldn’t count as hobbies in other cities was the norm. This environment suited me and other people who, like me, wanted to appear more industrious than average without doing much work.”
― Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
― Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
“Poppy Tooker, the efficacious leader of New Orleans’ Slow Food convivium, agreed: “As far as I’m concerned, a turducken is a medieval pile of poo. I’ve never seen one that, when carved, didn’t look like that and didn’t taste like a big pile of mish-mash-mush. Anyone who knows anything about food thinks the same.”
― Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
― Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
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“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
