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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."
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"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
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"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
Being
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
Food
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
People
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
Society
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