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Quote by John Updike
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and pr

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Marriage
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Food
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. Its sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. Its always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving. – Emeril Lagasse

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Food

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. Its not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks. – Paula Deen

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Food

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think its perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but dont do it because they think all the ways in which its done are wrong. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Food

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. – Aaron Sanchez

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Food

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Sometimes your dreams come true. – Frank Bruno

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Dreams

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

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Beauty

If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend. – Benjamin Franklin

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Secrets

When friends asked me, Can we help? Id say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars. – Charlie Sheen

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Time