"Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s."

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Source : Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Andrei Codrescu

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“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
“Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.”

Source : Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
“Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.”
“I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.”
“When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.”
“People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.”
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.”
“Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.”

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