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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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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Sanity
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty
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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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People always comment about my clothes. They dont think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. – Padma Lakshmi

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Food

Were going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that were paying attention to the food-safety issues. – Mike Johanns

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Food

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks its a subject below their social standing. – Robert Kiyosaki

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Food

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. – Lionel Poilane

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Food

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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. – John Drinkwater

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communication

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Thought,” Institutions and Summaries of Thought, 1862

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Quotations

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. – H. G. Wells

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War

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. – P. D. James

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War