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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

by Anthony Bourdain

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

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A few days later, I had my diploma. I was now a graduate of the best cooking school in the country – a valuable commodity on the open market – I had field experience, a vocabulary and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.

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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

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“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: depression

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