We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.

Sam Lipsyte
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This saying goes back to the 1930s and refers to the way we usually think of ice cream. It is a treat for the rich and well-fed. However, our lives are made up of many such pleasures. We can enjoy them as we wish, but by eating them we will not be able to escape the consequences that come with them. The spoon that we use for ice cream is the same spoon that we use for shit and one day we will be forced to eat it.

Source: The Ask

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