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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

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Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung

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by. Every winter solstice, we went up to the rooftop, put a camera on the bricks, and took a family photo. Between Mom the Ageless Vampire and Granny the Giant, I was

Ryan’s Quotes

“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

tags: humor

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“I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

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“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: shadow

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

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