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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, mise...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

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Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well...

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Christopher IsherwoodLost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passi...

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Giacomo CasanovaThe Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)

Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great ...

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Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of t...

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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi...

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