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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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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest…
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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at…
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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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It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
— Arthur Baer
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really…
— William Barclay
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I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having…
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,…
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My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not…
— Michael Dorris
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make…
— Joseph Conrad
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You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the…
— Robert Greene
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity…
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