"Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable."

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Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

Caragh M. O'Brien

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“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”

Source : "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.
“Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”
“Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.”
“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”
“It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.”
“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”
“The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.”

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