Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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painful array of Montblanc pens

The little tuffets for ladies’ bags, the selection of steak knives to choose from, the waiters who put on white gloves to trim fresh herbs tableside. The fucking water cart. The even more painful array of Montblanc pens to choose from so that one might more elegantly sign one’s check. The dark, hid…

—p.153 Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Heroes and Villains (143) by Anthony Bourdain
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the desire to be cool

Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a “decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned inten…

—p.118 I’m Dancing (117) by Anthony Bourdain
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weltschmerz

Once I’m away from the sight of the other lone Western travelers, each, I imagine, with their own weltschmerz-loaded back story, their own unfulfilled longings

—p.78 Lust (77) by Anthony Bourdain
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