"If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it."

-- Anthony Bourdain

#Cities Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cuisine Quotes

“I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”

Source : Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.122, The Overlook Press
“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of cultureâ€”and, in the process, we donâ€™t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.”
“LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.”
“To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace....”

Source : Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.195, A&C Black
“Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.”
“I do it because I still get a kick out of it. I still love performing. It keeps me young.”
“I got a washed out version of Momâ€™s curls and a better copy of Dadâ€™s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up for grabs. Except maybe Granâ€™s nose, but she could have been trying to make me feel better. Iâ€™m no prize. Most girls go through a gawky stage, but Iâ€™m beginning to think mine will be a lifelong thing. It doesnâ€™t bother me too much. Better to be strong than pretty and useless. Iâ€™ll take a plain girl with her head screwed on right over a cheerleader any day.”
“Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?”

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