Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
ANTHONY BOURDAINYour body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Luck is not a business model.
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I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.
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Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
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Selling out is getting a job.
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Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
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He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.
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I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
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Good food and good eating are about risk.
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I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport – would never do it and don’t like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it’s fine.
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Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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I learned to recognize failure.
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Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
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What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
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I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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