"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

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"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

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"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country."

Ann Veneman, American Public Servant

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"I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night."

Matt Cameron, American Musician

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"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front."

Norman Borlaug, American Scientist

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"I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

Mary Antin, Russian Activist

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"I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country."

Sela Ward, American Actress

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Explore more quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."

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"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose."

Creativity

"Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them."

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"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate."

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"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable."

Philosophy

"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

Nothing

"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."

Change

"I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others."

Values

"I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days."

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"Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?"

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