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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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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
Books
"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
Death
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love
"Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us."
Conscience
"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
Adversity
"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Man
"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
Duty
"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
Honesty
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
Money
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
Happiness
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