"The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in."

-- Laurie Colwin

#People Quotes #Meals Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.”
“If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”
“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.”
“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
“Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.”
“I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.”
“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”

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