Private Musings of a Pastry

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

—Hunter S. Thompson

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I make art. I can’t help it. That’s what I do. All the time. I have to make art, or I’ll die. I’m like a shark. In a beret.

—Dylan Moran 

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The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation—a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

—Franz Kafka

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She encounters bacon on brussels sprouts, bacon in sundaes and martinis, bacon, bacon everywhere, along with marrow and liver and lard.

“It’s all or nothing,” she wrote, flagging a dichotomy: cooking in trendy restaurants has never been fattier, while the trend of “cleansing” with a severe…