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“I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Fiction is empathy technology.”
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“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“It’s strange how you’re sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“We’re just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren’t the kind that could have it. [I]t’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.”
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
― The Postman Always Rings Twice
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