- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smoke Quotes
On the habits worth letting go of.
A late, blunt piece of advice here warns plainly against tobacco, coming from someone who wishes they'd stopped sooner. That caution fits our Habit collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
For wok cooking, use oils with a high smoke point and low polyunsaturated-fat content: grapeseed oil, peanut oil, etc. Sesame oil and olive oil will burn and taste bitter. Oils with high polyunsaturated-fat contents like soybean oil will also make your food texturally unpleasant.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020