You will indict me, no doubt, as an incurable romantic.
I plead guilty without contest. I see no other explanation of what we are about.
Why do we marry, why take friends...why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking?
Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation,
of course, but out of more than that, too...
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
- Robert Farrar Capon in The Supper of the Lamb
What a good thought! Thank you for these words of wisdom!
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