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Old Age Consolation

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One of the consolations of old age is the complete shedding of the illusion that you might be any different from how you are.

John Lanchester – The Debt to Pleasure
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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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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.

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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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Joys of Gluttony

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Gluttony and idleness are two of life’s great joys, but they are not honourable.

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