Top 30 Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

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In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, an

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We’d travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
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When I was a kid, we didn’t eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny’s, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.
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In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I’m traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.
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By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.
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Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards.
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I can’t picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
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Bookstores don’t exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.
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I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I’m working on. And though I’ll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don’t sound too bad when they’re played through lousy speakers.
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I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.
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If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I’m eleven again.
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Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
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I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
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I actually don’t think there is machismo in America, unless it’s the cowboy type – the silent, smoking brooder.
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Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship – all perks of adulthood.
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My confession: I listen to great music very badly.
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Of course, there’s no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It’s a silly expectation – there’s a Mexican population in Paris, but they’re not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn’t do Peruvian all that well, either.
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My ideal vacation isn’t about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don’t speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.
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As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn’t sleep at night from anticipation.
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For years, I’ve felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I’ve so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
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I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.
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Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.
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In Europe, it’s common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent’s high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.
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My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
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Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
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To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there.
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My first novel, ‘You Lost Me There,’ has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There’s not much room for mistakes when you’re competing against the sun for a person’s attention.
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Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn’t quit.
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Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl – a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.
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Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I’ve been lucky enough to visit twice.
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be.
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