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“I lit into them. ‘You goddamn cowards, afraid to face who you are. Pat, you’re a mooching drunk who screws his own cousin and sponges off everyone. You, Duff, you’re great company, I love you, but let’s face it, you hop beds hoping to find some unidentified something you lost. And you, Harold, you know your trouble? You’re a Guggenheim with no
... See moreA. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
“One effective and charming force behind this movement was Nicholas Kurti, a physicist and food lover at the University of Oxford, who lamented in 1969: “I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.”
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... See moreTOP 10 “BILLISMOS” Bill muitas vezes tinha uma maneira única de dizer que nos amava. Aqui estão suas dez favoritas, como recordou seu amigo e colega de equipe Ted Gregory. A lista foi impressa na contracapa do programa dado aos convidados no memorial de Bill. 10. “Você deveria mandar lavar e queimar essa camisa.” 9. “Você é burro como um poste.” 8.
... See moreEric Schimdt • O coach de um trilhão de dólares: O manual de liderança do Vale do Silício (Portuguese Edition)
batches and laid out unrinsed and still warm on lightly oiled sheet pans before being finished in sauce a few minutes later.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to his medium
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
I said to Massot that I thought it was a shame the sangliers were hunted quite so relentlessly by so many hunters. “But they taste delicious,” he said. “Specially the young ones, the marcassins. And besides, it’s natural. The English are too sentimental about animals, except those men who chase foxes, and they are mad.”
Peter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
More a friend to his authors than a taskmaster, he aided them in every way. He helped them structure their books, if help was needed; thought up titles, invented plots; he served as psychoanalyst, lovelorn adviser, marriage counselor, career manager, money-lender. Few editors before him had done so much work on manuscripts, yet he was always
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