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• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hair, Voice, Dawn

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.512, Macmillan

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• [A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

  James Joyce

  Imagination, Body, Priests

  James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.184, e-artnow

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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cake, Missing, Tea

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Cutting, Civilization

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Wine, Mirrors

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

  Haruki Murakami

  Civilization, Pieces, Toasts

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• A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Men, Light

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (No. CXXXII)". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited by Shoghi Effendi, reference.bahai.org. 1935.

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• MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate, All that was once so beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and this silver,And I have seen your fingers hold this glass. These things do not remember you, beloved: And yet your touch upon them will not pass. For it was in my heart you moved among them,And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes.And in my heart they will remember always: They knew you once, O beautiful and wise!

  Conrad Aiken

  Beautiful, Wise, Blessed

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Discordants”

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Wine, Son

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• Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Butterfly, Wings, Feet

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Through the Looking-Glass: and what Alice found there”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thanksgiving, Pain, Taken

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• I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

  William Saroyan

  Prayer, War, Home

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

  Studs Terkel

  Friday, Monday, Dying

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Doe, Affirmation

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

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• Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Mind, Different

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “Murder in the Dark”, p.52, New Canadian Library

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• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

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• Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

  Emma Goldman

  Work, Giving, Anarchism

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• in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

  Markus Zusak

  Tree, Afternoon, Bears

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.512, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

  Desmond Tutu

  Cutting, Knives, Religion

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• Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

  C. S. Lewis

  Talking, Water, House

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.72, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Beautiful, Sweet, Couple

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• He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.

  Mark Haddon

  Uncles, Thinking, People

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.70, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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