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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
— Edgar Allan Poe
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame,…
— Walter de La Mare
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Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life,…
— J. Chapman
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...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
— John M. Geddes
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The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and…
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense…
— David Lilienthal
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You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.
— Lady Gaga
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You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the…
— Milan Kundera
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With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,…
— Bob Dylan
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