"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."

Food, Character, Children, Smoking

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"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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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."

Helen Rowland, American Writer

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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Jennifer Jason Leigh, American Actress

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."

Thomas R. Kelly, American Celebrity

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"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."

Bill Dickey, American Athlete

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"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."

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"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."

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"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

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"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."

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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."

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"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."

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"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."

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"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."

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"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."

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