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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.

Anthony Bourdain

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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Bad Believe Big Experience Myself Perfection Travel Yourself
This, I knew, was the magic I had until now been only dimly and spitefully aware of.
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Healing Magic Yourself
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
What’s the opposite of suck? Un-suck?
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One Liner
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
Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Lie Mistake Yourself
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
I learned to recognize failure.
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Failure Learning One Liner Recognize
I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.
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Crime Dangerous Myself
Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife.
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Food Myself Touch
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
I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk.
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Believe Eat Goodness Myself Risk
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
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.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Experience Expression Journey Oneself Serious
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

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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