"Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence."

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Donald Barthelme

#Food Quotes #Golden Quotes #Existence Quotes

“Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.”
“The politics of language and the politics of writing really got to me. I've heard this phrase more than once now: this idea of the poetry wars, or the idea that people within the space of writing are at odds with one another or manipulating language to further one's political stance, manipulating language in ways that really felt dirty to me. All of these things worked their way into and through language for me.”
“Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.”
“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 367), 1895.
“I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.”
“The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.”
“I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.”
“No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.”

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