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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
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"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
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"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."
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"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
Poetry
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
Politics
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
Boys
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
Food
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
Sacrifice
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
Leadership
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
Politics
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