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Do not get to the point where you give everyone everything you have, in terms of energy and time and brain power and money and even your presence. Because what will happen is you will be left with nothing and they will still have everything
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“The world is now awash in monocultures of genetically uniform varieties, fed by chemical fertilizers.”
― The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
― The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
“To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having survived our own mother's indifference, anger, overpowering love, the burden of her pain, her tendency to drink or teetotal, her warmth or coldness, praise or criticism, sexual confusions or embarrassing clarity. It isn't enough that she sweat, labored, bore her daughters howling or under total anesthesia or both. No. She must be responsible for our psychic weaknesses the rest of her life. It is alright to feel kinship with your father, to forgive. We all know that. But your mother is held to a standard so exacting that it has no principles. She simply must be to blame.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“It’s easy to convince people that you are really okay if they don’t have to actually hear what rattles you in the private silence of your own making.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, literally rotten. But there has to be a first time. Somehow we have to get those first drops of real extra virgin oil into their mouths, to break them free from the habituation to bad oil, and from the brainwashing of advertising. There has to be some good oil left in the world for people to taste.”
― Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
― Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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