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Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence. - Mark Kurlansky
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I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it. - Mark Kurlansky
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I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated. - Mark Kurlansky
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You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds. - Mark Kurlansky
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When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since. - Mark Kurlansky
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I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation. - Mark Kurlansky
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I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright. - Mark Kurlansky
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The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media. - Mark Kurlansky
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Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary. - Mark Kurlansky
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When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line. - Mark Kurlansky
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It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries. - Mark Kurlansky
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Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea. - Mark Kurlansky
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Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways. - Mark Kurlansky
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The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer. - Mark Kurlansky
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The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth. - Mark Kurlansky
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Beware of fish that is very inexpensive. - Mark Kurlansky
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I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. - Mark Kurlansky
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#Love
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The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. - Mark Kurlansky
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Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet. - Mark Kurlansky
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Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true. - Mark Kurlansky
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Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. - Mark Kurlansky
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#History
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