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Unknown Future

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The future is, of course, an unknown country, but one in which we all have to seek citizenship.

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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Wine and Opera Analogy

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Wine is like opera. You can get very cheap seats, they don’t feel comfortable and the view is restricted but it’s still the same show.

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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.

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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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