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• Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

  Maria Sharapova

  Russia, Talking, Long

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• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

  Charles Stanley

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

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• I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  Alison Sweeney

  Vegetables, Snacks, Lunch

  "Alison Sweeney's Stay-Slim Secrets". Interview with Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. August 13, 2011.

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• I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Apples, Teeth, Looks

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• The menu is not the meal.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Human Nature

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• Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

  Martin Amis

  Fear, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Mar 21, 2015

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Self, Years

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• Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Real, Animal, People

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Circles, Magic

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

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• I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Book, Learning

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• This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.

  E. Nesbit

  Nice, Silly, Years

  E. Nesbit (2004). “The Railway Children”, p.334, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Real, Lovely

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Good Day

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Giving, Three

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Adventure, Said

  Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #4”, Vertigo

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• There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

  Daniel Handler

  Salmon, Yogurt, Too Much

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• It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect... It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless.

  Bill Bryson

  Sports, Player, Names

  "In a Sunburned Country". Book by Bill Bryson, June 18, 2000.

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• The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Reality, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

  Anthony Trollope

  Left Alone, Novel, Walks

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1267, e-artnow

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• I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Fear

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• I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, People, Serious

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Couple, Hate, Mean

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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