Ralph waldo Quote by Michael Pollan

“You have just dined,” Emerson once wrote, “and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

— Michael Pollan

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no history; there is only biography,” Emerson once wrote.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The only way to overcome your fears is to "do the thing you fear," as Emerson wrote, "and the death of fear is certain.”

— Brian Tracy

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— Paul Kalanithi

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— Anonymous

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

— Bradford Morrow

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

— Maurice Bowra

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I dined upon a bird, and radishes from the garden, and homemade plum jam.”

— Shirley Jackson

“ne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I…

— Bram Stoker