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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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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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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."
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"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
Reflection
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
Perception
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Government
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
Government
"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."
Reflection
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
Existence
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
Literature
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
Marriage
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
Life
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