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Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

Mark Millar

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Mark Millar
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 24
Comic Book Writer
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
Culture
Lost
Sense
Cookbook
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Life
Pictures
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Imagine
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