Eli Brown Quotes

#1. I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.

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#2. It is no great secret that cooking is, in essence, seduction.

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#3. We are surrounded by monsters," she said. "We can cower before them or we can pick one and sink our teeth in with the aim to give it hell.

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#4. The ocean, whose essence is fluid and unresisting, is more prison than the staunchest bricks or iron bars.

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#5. A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow."
"That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.

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#6. It matters not what language a man speaks; he holds a pen, he holds a plow, he holds a gun in exactly the same manner. We are all children of our tools.

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#7. I've had this pain. To tell you it will go away would be a lie. It will never go away. But, if you live long enough, it will cease to torture and will instead flavor you. As we rely on the bitterness of strong tea to wake us, this too will become something you can use.

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#8. I now have some intimacy with death, and like the hops in a beer, it has both embittered and fortified me.

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#9. Men who long for the past are already dead. Look to the future, Owen.

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#10. It is, admittedly, a base foodstuff, but lobster, well prepared, can nevertheless be made to satisfy the distinguished gourmand.

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#11. I may not be skilled at eloquent oratory , but for muttering angrily under one's breath, I have never met a more capable man.

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#12. Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and the color of a sunset. Or perhaps my wife leaned down and touched my efforts with a kettle-blessing to keep me safe.

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#13. I write here all I can, yet cannot express the fatigue I collapse under each night, worn to the bone with worry. I feel Hope and Fear beside me all the time, two woodsmen with a saw across my middle. They pull the saw in turns. It is everything I can do not to fall in two.

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#14. He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.

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