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

Anthony Bourdain

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
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
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
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Character One Liner Way Yourself
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
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Deserve Food Yourself
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.
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Afraid Angry History People Teaching
There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
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Mind One Liner Place Rest
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
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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Alone Fake Wonderful
Without new ideas, success can become stale.
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Ideas Inspirational Success
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
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Character Skill Yourself
Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
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Body Fun Yourself
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description.
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Place Reality
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
Under ‘Reasons for Leaving Last Job’, never give the real reason, unless it’s money or ambition.
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Ambition Leave Reason
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
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
Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbone, and Pernod.
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Food Ourselves Space Time
It’s very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
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Career Goodness Rare
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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Food Romantic Time Yourself
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
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?
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Deep Ideas
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
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

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