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Despite the – not mythic, completely true – fact that Jews are obsessed with food, and despite the appropriation of bagels, chopped liver, schmaltz herring, chicken soup and salt beef by many, many non-Jewish outlets, particularly in
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Is this more to do with assimilation? Like the Irish in Boston, Jewish diaspora became strongly part of the identity of the city and snowballed out. I don't know for sure, but I think there is something different than appropriation and closer to diaspora Irish going on here.
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
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“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
― Assassin's Apprentice
― Assassin's Apprentice
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
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“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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