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“Critical thinking is not as reflexive as you may first believe. Think of how effective social media misinformation has been. So effective that it has been easily weaponized by nation states. The battlefield has moved from landmines to the minds of citizens. It is not the medium that is at fault it is the consumer. Our human nature makes us sitting ducks. We are prepared to believe most things as long as they align with our preconceptions or predispositions.”
― Marie Henein, Nothing But the Truth

“He proceeds to tell me about blends of curry powders, the benefits of fresh spices, the tamarinds he is now importing in the shell. I am so absorbed I forget the kitchen---and my unfeminine blunders---entirely. He describes the smoky flavor of cumin, the black bitterness of fenugreek seeds, the sweet richness of fresh coconut flesh, the fierce blast of fresh ginger root.”
― Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

“It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop.”
― Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

“I never base my writing on concepts; I base my writing on feelings. Obviously I have concepts, and I am even willing to call my pattern of cognition "rational intuition." This is because my sensibility eventually congeals into reason. As I said above, what I portray are the contradictions and struggles in the depths of the soul and the landscape of life of an artistically refined human. My starting point is the impulse of life; the impulse for freedom in the depths of the mind. It is just such a mechanism: you have an impulse, then, in the midst of tension, the landscape takes shape. When you stop, then the landscape disappears. I have sufficiently absorbed Western ideology during my many years of reading, yet my creative mechanism is fundamentally a Chinese type of subversive mechanism. Of course this is closely related to my life trajectory. I am a Chinese person in love with Western culture.”
― Canxue