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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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"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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"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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"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."
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"The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God."
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"I don't take criticism lying down."
Criticism

"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
Nation

"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
Leadership

"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
War

"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
War

"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
Food

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
Military

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
War

"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
Leadership

"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
Leadership
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