"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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"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 will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."

Woody Allen, American Director

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

George Mikes, British 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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"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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

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

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"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."

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"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."

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"In love there are two things - bodies and words."

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"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."

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"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

Self

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."

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