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This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.

Anthony Bourdain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.
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Beautiful Break Change Comfortable Heart Hurt Journey Travel Yourself
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me .
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Food Myself Please Power
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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Experiment New Repeat Try
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
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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Change Leave Life Small Travel World Yourself
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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One Liner Sin
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime, Please, treat your garlic with respect.
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Crime Divine Food Respect Taste
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
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Greatness Life Memories Oneself Play Power True
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
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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Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself

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