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"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
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"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
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"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
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"A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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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."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."
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"A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?"
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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
Creativity
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
Experience
"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."
Sex
"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
Work
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
Christian
"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
Family
"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."
Happiness
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
Intellectual
"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."
Life
"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
Experience
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