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All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: wait, winter, cooking, light

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In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: hot, power, you, cool
Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: little, key, book, memories
You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: i-can, go, people, you
We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: live, fat, pain, culture
I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.
— Anthony Doerr
Tags: always, feel, time, beauty
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