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As the Queen’s grandmother Queen Mary once said to a relative, “You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired and we all love hospitals.”
“Tony had an addictive personality and was without doubt a workaholic, choosing to travel over 250 days a year for as long as I’d known him. Whenever I used to suggest he take some time off, Tony would say, “Television is a cruel mistress. She does not let you cheat on her, even for a while.”
― In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
― In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
“That's the work of adulthood. Sorting out the good and bad within.”
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
“Astronomy was history. Because space was time. And that was the thing she loved most about the universe itself. When you look at the red star Antares in the southern sky, you are looking over thirty-three hundred trillion miles away. But you are also looking more than five hundred and fifty years into the past. Antares is so far away that its light takes five hundred and fifty years to reach your eye on Earth. Five hundred and fifty light-years away. So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
― Atmosphere
― Atmosphere
“Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
“If you are a smart woman, you cannot stand by and remain sane once you fully understand, as a smart person does, the constraints of this world on a woman. I couldn’t bear it. I saw it too clearly and”
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
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