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Dressing up, he thinks, is just like watching cartoons, something you enjoyed as a kid, before it passes through the no man’s land of teen angst, the ironic age of early twenties. And then somehow, miraculously, it crosses back into the
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“I knew that the little starbursts I called flavor crunchies were actually an amino acid known as tyrosine that formed in aged cheeses like cheddar and Gouda. I also knew that I would definitely continue calling them flavor crunchies.”
― American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World
― American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World
“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He”
― News of the World
― News of the World
“Someone was trying to keep the story from ending, I think.
But the story wanted an ending.
Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
But the story wanted an ending.
Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
“Tucked in my bag is another book from the shelf above my desk. Blue and cloth-bound, it's full of stories that I wrote myself. Stories from my childhood on Svalbard. These stories are nonfiction. They're pieces of my heart made of paper and ink.”
― The Wide Starlight
― The Wide Starlight
“Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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Everything that has to do with developing applications for the Internet, aka the Web, is fair game. And that include quite a lot, including databases, ...more
The Reading For Pleasure Book Club
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