“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”
― Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
― Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
“Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.”
― The Power of One
― The Power of One
“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
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