"In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

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“Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.”
“People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.789, Penguin
“Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.”
“The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.”
“When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.”

Source : Sir Leonard Woolley (1920). “Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook”, London, Milford
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”

Source : George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.19, Library of Alexandria
“My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.”

Source : "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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