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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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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."
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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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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."
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"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Relationship

"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
Relationship

"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
Writing

"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
Humor

"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
Life

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Philosophical

"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
Philosophy

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
People

"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
Education

"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
Faith
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