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Letter "M" » meal
«My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.»
«There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.»
«No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.»
«Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.»
«Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.»
Author: Raymond Sokolov
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About:
America and Americans,
Food
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Keywords:
cloth,
converge,
converged,
converges,
converging,
Four Seasons,
high noon,
High Sierra,
local,
lunch,
lunches,
meal,
minor,
mount,
Mount Whitney,
napkin,
napkins,
new line,
noon,
pinnacle,
pinnacles,
reservation,
Reservations,
seasons,
sierra,
the bar,
The Four,
The Mount,
The New York,
Whitney,
zenith
«The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.»
«I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.»
«Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.»
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
Critic,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arbitrary,
conversing,
Death itself,
demonic,
epileptic,
Epileptics,
extinction,
impulse,
intervals,
level of consciousness,
making love,
meal,
mood,
On the Level,
physical death,
physical force,
pushing,
range,
resembles,
sensation,
sexuality,
sudden,
sudden death,
taboo,
taboos,
tamed,
voluptuous,
yearning
«Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.»