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  1. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Gerontius

    Nothing is avowed to exist nowadays unless it can be bought or sold or measured by scientists. Why should artists have to acknowledge the complete supremacy of materialism? Must everything mysterious be exploded or all unaccountable things explained away? And if so, what is gained? Plain men drudging in a world of plain things. That's not the world I know and it's one I've no wish to know.
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  2. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Gerontius

    Well, finally it seems I've wasted my life. It's a hard age at which to drink spider-juice but I submit. Suddenly...I felt the flimsiness of all my substance, but not so much because I'd missed something. Quite the contrary -- it was because of something of which I've had all too much: myself. I doubt it ever occurs to people who are not cursed with this 'urge to create' {whatever that is} how, far from living in sublime communion with one's Muse, one grows thoroughly to hate her.
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  3. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its

    We hang here, inquisitive carbon-based life forms, knowing that every atom of carbon now in our bodies was once in the interior of a star.
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    First nights in strange places can determine how one sees them forever after

  5. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?
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  6. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.
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  7. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.
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  8. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.
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  9. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.
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  10. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
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  11. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts."
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