American - Journalist | December 7, 1948 -
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Mark Kurlansky
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I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
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As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.
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I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
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I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
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I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
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What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
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Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
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People motivated by fear do not act well.
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I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.
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What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.
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I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In fact, being a small minority. When I'm in Israel, I cannot get used to the notion that we're all Jewish. It doesn't seem to me that we're supposed to all be Jewish.
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