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Cooking, speaking, writing meant selecting. This not that. But also: this and that. Judge well, mix well. Don’t waste food. Don’t waste your words. The art of using leftovers: out of waste scraps make something beautiful and new.
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.”
― American Gods
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.”
― American Gods
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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