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Language Like Poppies

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Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about.

John Lanchester – The Debt to Pleasure
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Time’s Perspective

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Time, I think, is like walking backwards away from something: the further away you get, the smaller it seems.

John Lanchester – The Debt to Pleasure
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Unreliable Memory

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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers…

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Cooking as Art

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Cooking is an art form, a creative thing. Chefs are artists, they say. But being an artist, I’ve discovered, doesn’t mean you’re any good.

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Life Becomes Literature

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I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember.

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Food and Love Link

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People who do not love food are always the same people who ‘can take or leave’ love itself.

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