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When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface. ↗

— Joshua Emmet

#wisdom #imagination

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#humor #woman #food

Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#water #food

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#forest #game #ground #hard #however

And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#humor #slow-food-nation #family

After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they could talk as well as any wolf. Unlike wolves, however, they mostly used their mouths, a thing she found limiting. How could you tell someone to keep away from your food when your own mouth was full? ↗

— Jane Lindskold

#wolf #wolf-speaker #food

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.
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— Jarod Kintz

#convincing #power #powerful #word-of-mouth #food

YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE. YOU SEND FOOD TO THE REFUGEES, AND THEN YOU DON'T ALLOW THE DELIVERY TRUCKS THROUGH THE WARZONES. THE FOOD WILL SPOIL , THE SUPPLIES WILL BE SOLD BY THE VICTORS . THE CIVILIANS WILL STARVE AND SICKEN AND EVENTUALLY DIE. IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS. THEY WILL ALL DIE, WHETHER FROM THE BRUTAL SAVAGERY THAT IS UNIQUE TO MAN OR FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF DISEASE OR FROM THE SCARCITY OF SUSTENANCE. ↗

— Jackie Morse Kessler

#sad #true #war #food

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#food

The poor spend all their free time drinking. It helps cope with the terrible drudgery of obtaining food stamps. An ethic of alcoholism prevails among the upper class too, but they use leisure to deal with it. ↗

— Bauvard

#drinking #food-stamps #funny #humor #leisure