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Mallory DeVries
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“We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.”
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to exclude. We had crickets in the pantry, squirrels in the eaves, sparrows in the attic. Lucille and I stepped through the door from sheer night to sheer night.”
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“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge a protest against specialization—against the total rationalization of life. Against the infiltration of commercial interests into every last cranny of our lives. To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from the corporations seeking to organize our every waking moment into yet another occasion for consumption. (Come to think of it, our nonwaking moments as well: Ambien, anyone?) It is to reject the debilitating notion that, at least while we’re at home, production is work best done by someone else, and the only legitimate form of leisure is consumption. This dependence marketers call “freedom.”
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
― Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“Your goals should be bigger than your ego,”
― Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
― Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
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