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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
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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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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
Reading
"The streets were dark with something more than night."
Night
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Food
"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
Society
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."
Thought
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
Advertising
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
Reading
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
Intelligence
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