"I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth."

-- Jacques Pepin

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“I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.”
“Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.”
“In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.”
“If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life”
“Black is not sad... Black is poetic.”
“Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.”
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
“The most sensitive frequencies are at the resonant frequencies of the auditory canal. In other words, the ear has shaped itself to naturally amplify certain bandwidth. And that corresponds to sounds in that bandwidth that were most important to our evolving ancestors to hear, in order to survive. And it doesn't match the human voice. It matches birdsong.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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