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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."

"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."

"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."
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"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"

"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere."

"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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