"In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Annia Ciezadlo

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“I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

Source : Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)
“The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.”
“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
“I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.”
“When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditional neighborhood stores and cafÃ©s, they offer different products, and they have a different atmosphere. Longtime residents may feel uncomfortable there. Structurally, as a group of gentrifiers gets bigger, there is less room for longtime residents. When it becomes a pattern and you can see the effects, we call that displacement.”
“Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined.”
“Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.”

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