"Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences."

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Source : "Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating". Book by George J. Armelagos and Peter Farb, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

Peter Farb

#Spiritual Quotes #Together Quotes #Eating Quotes

“Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.”
“Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.”
“In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.”
“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”

Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
“It became like a symbolic thing, to be â€œan artist.â€ After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.”
“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.”
“I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.”
“Things have a terrible permanence when people die.”

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