#kin

One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt’s surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didn’t scent them. It was a beautiful day—no clouds in the sky. Augustus rode with his big rifle propped across the saddle—he was in the highest of spirits. They rode ahead of the herd some fifteen miles or more, and yet when they stopped to look back they could still see the cattle, tiny black dots in the middle of the plain, with the southern horizon still far behind them. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#beauty

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#deal #hawking #i #i was born #like

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermination of trees, forests, and hidden places in which such legends live) makes the city a 'suspended symbolic order.' The habitable city is thereby annulled. Thus, as a woman from Rouen put it, no, here 'there isn't any place special, except for my own home, that's all...There isn't anything.' Nothing 'special': nothing that is marked, opened up by a memory or a story, signed by something or someone else. Only the cave of the home remains believable, still open for a certain time to legends, still full of shadows. Except for that, according to another city-dweller, there are only 'places in which one can no longer believe in anything. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#walking #life

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. ↗

— James Beard

#cuisine #food #pork #food

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#walking

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cook #cooking #eat #food #identity

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#crafting #doing #i #i love #love

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief. ↗

— Joy Reidenberg

#science #science

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong. ↗

— Lewis Richmond

#satisfaction