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"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
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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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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'."
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"I love shopping, especially food shopping."
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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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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
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"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
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"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food."
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"The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places."
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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
Commercialism
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Food
"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
Work
"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
Family
"There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!"
Time
"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
Body
"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"
Experience
"I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years."
Death
"I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home."
Home
"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."
Family
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