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“the kind of love I love to fall into is the kind of love that’s most at home in the kitchen; a domestic kind of love; an intimate, easy, buttery kind of love.”
― Juliet Annan, In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.”
― George Orwell

“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda