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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.

Anthony Bourdain

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
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Kill One Liner Writing
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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Better Eat Hunger Learning Life Live People Possible Travel Yourself
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
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
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
I could eat bloody Elvis – if you put enough vinegar on him.
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Eat Himself Myself
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.
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Learning Sex Skill Yourself
I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
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Myself Try
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night.
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Beautiful Myself Night
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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Better Different Himself Home Oneself
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
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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Lie Mistake Yourself
I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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Adventure Break Hope Lost Myself World
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’
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Doctor
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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Feeling Myself
Selling out is getting a job.
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One Liner Sell
Luck is not a business model.
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Business Luck One Liner
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
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Inspirational One Liner Rise
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
Good food and good eating are about risk.
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Eat Food Goodness One Liner Risk
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
And chicken is boring. Chefs see it as a menu item for people who don’t know what they want to eat.
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Eat Food People

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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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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