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"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."

"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."

"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."

"Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that."

"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."

"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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