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Mark Kurlansky Quotes

American - Journalist | December 7, 1948 -

It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

Fish Know Done Hunting Years Off

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

Change Age Change The World I Am Am

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

Writing Survival Never Planned Books

I'm friends with Studs Terkel.

I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.

Life Say Want Over Extraordinary

I'm interested in most everything.

Everything Interested Most

Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.

Good Quality Fishing Better Fish

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

Adventure College Me American Real

As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.

Wine Geography Flavor Affects Named

When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

Wind You Up Pastry Working Made

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.

History Architecture Revolution True

The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.

Home Theatre End Television Movies

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