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Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.

— Anthony Bourdain The Nasty Bits (2006)

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The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.

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The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus.

Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

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