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The Fixer

by Bernard Malamud

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How to Cook a Wolf

by M.F.K. Fisher

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An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

by Tamar Adler

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“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
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“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant

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