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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

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Derrick JensenA Language Older Than Words

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which w...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of the Senses

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...

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Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins befo...

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E. M. ForsterAspects of the Novel

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes...

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His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of...

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When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred He quoth: "A large cold bottle and a small h...

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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon...

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recog...

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The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illus...

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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...

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From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching th...

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...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...

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If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you...

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Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents ...

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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio din...

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We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

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Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal...

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They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...

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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

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This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, un...

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Leo TolstoyThe First Step: An Essay on the Morals of Diet

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...

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I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

In short, software is eating the world.

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

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At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

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Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for q...

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In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would gro...

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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want ...

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I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

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Mervyn PeakeThe Gormenghast Novels

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, ...

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We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appoi...

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

You are what what you eat eats.

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Michael PollanIn Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zer...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us ag...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a che...

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Nigella LawsonHow to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

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Peter S. BeagleA Fine and Private Place

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where's the wheat?

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Roy Blount, Jr.Alphabet Juice: The Energies

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indiges...

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The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

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W. H. AudenA Certain World: A Commonplace Book

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what...

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And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritat...

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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and comp...

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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpas...

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Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated...

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Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most...

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...

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If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.