"Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat."

-- Curtis Stone

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“It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.”

Source : William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.119, Macmillan
“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”

Source : Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “Political and moral dimensions”, p.435, Transaction Publishers
“I like practicing law.”
“No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.”
“If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God , if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.”
“Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium...”

Source : George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”
“Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.”
“Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.”

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