December 2011
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Anthony Bourdain's Worst Meals
sickeninglyliberal: A Snickers bar at the airport. It was slightly past its expiration date and had the flavor and texture of peanuts preserved in wax. It nearly strangled me as it descended my gullet and it just sort of sat there, choking off my digestive process with its corporate nougat. A Big Mac eaten between shoots at a Cardiff McDonald’s. It was a greasy, fatty, and grayish-brown lump of...
Dec 30th
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fortuneandglory: As a writer: Would you rather live out the rest of your life in total obscurity, poverty, and despair, only to have the significance of your work discovered posthumously, thus rendering your relative immortality and importance in literature? OR Would you rather live out the rest of your life with international fame and fortune and no worries, but have your writing crumble to...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via talkativolive) (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 30th
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“Everything was different now. Everything. I’d not only survived - I’d enjoyed....”
– Anthony Bourdain on eating his first oyster as a child - from his memoir Kitchen Confidential. (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 30th
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“I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I...”
– Ryan Gosling (via tinkerbellomushrooms)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“Batman is the focus. I am just glad I got to be a part of history.”
– Hines Ward about his cameo in The Dark Knight Rises (via omgarytdkr)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce”
– Voltaire (via msnyx)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“‘That’s the problem with drinking,’ I thought, as I poured myself a drink. ‘If...”
– Charles Bukowski (via jolieame)
Dec 22nd
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“There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other...”
– Neil Gaiman (via venebelle)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the...”
– Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies  And this is why I want to absorb all of the information about everything. (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 22nd
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“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche  (via theunquotables)
Dec 21st
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“Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via permanentlyundefeated)
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“Anyway, as soon as I got my breath back I ran across Route 104. It was icy as...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via shadowsholdtheirbreath)
Dec 20th
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“All money is a matter of belief.”
– Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (via theunquotables)
Dec 20th
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fortuneandglory: There is no doubt that the Republican legislators led by Boehner are refusing to pass anything that would reflect positively on President Obama. Flat out refusing. It is political hijacking at its worst - and it is at our expense. How are there so many people blind to this? This should be at the forefront of everyday discussion among Americans, yet I’d wager that the majority do...
Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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Some Belated Parental Advice to OWS Protesters  →
fortuneandglory: sickeninglyliberal: Oh Jesus Christ. I am at a loss for words at the stupidity emitted by Marybeth Hicks in this article - but then again, I suppose it is expected coming from the author of Don’t Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left’s Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom. Please, please, please, somebody who isn’t overrun with anger tear this nonsense...
Dec 18th
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“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (via serialstranger)
Dec 17th
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“I am typing this having just had an injection to try to reduce the pain in my...”
– Christopher Hitchens from his January (last?) Vanity Fair article Trial of the Will (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 17th
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“I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.”
– Morrissey (via egyptianmusk)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...”
– John Keats, in a letter to Fanny Keats (via withnailrules) ~~AMEN! (via mrsevilvixen)
Dec 15th
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“Even a map cannot show you the way back to a place that no longer exists.”
– Sandra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970” (via risky wiver)
Dec 15th
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“Thank God! Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check any...”
– Stephen Colbert (via photographsonthebrain) (via leannarthur)
Dec 15th
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Dec 8th
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus (via misswallflower)
Dec 6th
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he...”
– Pythagoras (via howdidwegetsofarawayfromus)
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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“College wasn’t like the real world. In the real world, people dropped names...”
– The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides (via hello-ampersand)
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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“Here’s what you need to know about life in general - any place that refuses to...”
– Anthony Bourdain, The Layover (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 5th
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Dec 1st
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“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in...”
– Ernest Hemingway in a 1954 letter to Bernard Berenson (via fortuneandglory)
Dec 1st
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