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“we’re beholden not to look away from the things we fear or revere.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“Laughing brings out the good in food. It’s good to laugh. If you don’t laugh, you’re going to magnify. And if you magnify, you’re going to die.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“It’s the drunkenness of all the new things that can be.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“Frankly, out in America, you get the feeling that America is dying. And along its highways and byways, the country seems less ready to leap into the future than it is already clinging to a sepia-toned past when America stood as the unencumbered Big Boy in a Manichean world of good and evil, capitalists and Commies. Even the neon oasis-pods of the interstate—the perpetual clusters of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Denny’s, and Burger King—are crowded with people strangely reclaiming bygone days, connecting themselves to some prior eating experience, reveling in the familiar. We gas”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
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