"Bread is the staff of life." — Jonathan Swift

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• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary… — Paul Auster
• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on… — James A. Baldwin
• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to… — James A. Baldwin
• I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. — Tyra Banks
• I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
• Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. — Milton Berle
• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. — Georges Bernanos
• Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce

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