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“For the second one, put down that I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. My tastes are now more catholic, if not omnivorous. My children call me the walking garbage pail. (On my own terms, of course, I refuse the epithet: All that I take is stored lovingly in an ample home--it becomes not waste, but waist.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

“The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, The Hunger Games

“Admittedly, spending an hour in the society of an onion may be something you have never done before. You feel, perhaps, a certain resistance to the project. Please don't. As I shall show later, a number of highly profitable members of the race have undertaken it before you. Onions are excellent company.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

“And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”
― Shannon Hale

“Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.”
― Samuel Butler, Erewhon