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• I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

  Dodie Smith

  Real, Thinking, Tea

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.46, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

  T. H. White

  Running, Boys, Risk

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Tired, Giving

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, Water, Needs

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Sep 03, 2012

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• We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Wigs, Poor

  "The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages".

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• If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

  Steve Martin

  Money, Math, Dollars

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Day, Men, Pork

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.170, Penguin

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• I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Flames, Knives

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin

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• There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

  Marge Piercy

  Justice, And Love

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.196, Knopf

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• No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Humble, Exercise

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• A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Writing, Men, Solitude

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sunshine, Boys, Air

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

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• In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sorry, Feet, People

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wine, Men, Moon

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Tears, Use, Hey

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• I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

  Jules Verne

  Generosity, Gold, World

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.123, Jules Verne

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• The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Two, Ducks

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• When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky red cardigan, which she swore had a power of its own. She loved this time of year. Summer was tedious with the light dresses she pretended to be comfortable in while secretly sure she looked like a loaf of white bread wearing a belt. The cold was such a relief.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Summer, White, Light

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.1, Bantam

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• Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Justice For All, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

  Erma Bombeck

  Hilarious, Funny Life, Food

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• The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Garbage Cans

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2016

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• She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to notice his face; and when she did . . . It was, she thought, rather like the moment it took to realize one had cut one's finger as one stared dumbly at the first drop of blood on the knife-blade. You know it is going to hurt quite a lot in a minute.

  Robin McKinley

  Hurt, Cutting, Fire

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• In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Safety, Water

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