We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Shirley Jackson
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  1. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

  2. I love you like a fat kid loves cake! - Scott Adams

  3. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

  4. There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

  5. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing... - M.F.K. Fisher

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  1. I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the children, lying there crying with the pain of dying. I would help myself to groceries, I thought, stepping over their bodies, taking whatever I fancied...

  2. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

  3. In the country of the story the writer is king.

  4. Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....

  5. Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you remember me by? - or even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?

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