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Food first, then morality.
(Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" Act 2, sc. 6, The Threepenny Opera.)
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Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
(Ben King (1857-1899), poet (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING). The Pessimist (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press.)
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Don't make jokes about food.
(David Lean (1908-1991), British screenwriter, Norman Spencer, and Wynyard Browne. Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton), Hobson's Choice (1954).)
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Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
(Dorothy Allison (b. 1953), U.S. novelist and poet. Bastard Out of Carolina, ch. 6 (1992).
From the autobiographical novel based on memories of her poverty-stricken youth in South Carolina.)
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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
(Paul Goodman (1911-1972), U.S. author, poet, critic. "Ireland, Spring 1958," sct. 2, Five Years (1966).)
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Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, May 2, 1848, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 165, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Ligeia (l. 30-32). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XLII.2 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
(William Faulkner (1897-1962), U.S. novelist. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).)
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I can imagine living without food. I cannot imagine living without books.
(Alice Foote MacDougall (1867-1945), U.S. businesswoman. The Autobiography of a Business Woman, ch. 2 (1928).
Recalling her childhood self-education in her grandfather's library, where she read works by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, Smollett, Shelley, Spenser, Browning, Emerson, and George Eliot, among other writers.)
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