Dangerous Beauty - Quotes

 Veronica Franco:
I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry. I confess I had a mother who taught me a different way of life, one I resisted at first but learned to embrace. I confess I became a courtesan, traded yearning for power, welcomed many rather than be owned by one. I confess I embraced a whore's freedom over a wife's obedience. I confess I find more ecstacy in passion than in prayer. Such passion is prayer. I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips. His hands upon me, his arms enfolding me... Such surrender has been mine. I confess I pray still to be filled and enflamed. To melt into the dream of us, beyond this troubled place, to where we are not even ourselves. To know that always, this is mine. If this had not been mine-if I had lived any other way-a child to her husband's will, my soul hardened from lack of touch and lack of love... I confess such endless days and nights would be a punishment far greater than you could ever mete out. You, all of you, you who hunger so for what I give yet cannot bear to see that kind of power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift-ourselves, our yearning, our need to love-you call it filth and sin and heresy... I repent there was no other way open to me. I do not repent my life.
 

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Richard Wright - Quotes

 Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. 

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Stephen King - Quotes

 They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. 

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The Cypherian - Quotes

 Servius Augustus Cyriacus:
A poet once wrote "I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, on the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell. I know the names of the stars from north to south. I was at the place of the crucifixion of the merciful Son of God. I am a wonder whose origin is unknown. I have suffered hunger for the Son of the Virgin. I have been fostered in the land of the Deity. I have been teacher to all intelligences. And I shall be, until the day of doom, on the face of the earth."
 

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Little Children - Quotes

 Sarah Pierce:
I think I understand your feelings about this book. I used to have some problems with it, myself. When I read it in grad school, Madam Bovary just seemed like a fool. She marries the wrong man; makes one foolish mistake after another; but when I read it this time, I just fell in love with her. She's trapped! She has a choice: she can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle.
Mary Ann:
Some struggle. Hop into bed with every guy who says hello.
Sarah Pierce:
She fails in the end, but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion. My professors would kill me for even thinking this, but in her own strange way, Emma Bovary is a feminist.
Mary Ann:
Oh, that's nice. So now cheating on your husband makes you a feminist?
Sarah Pierce:
No, no, it's not the cheating. It's the hunger. The hunger for an alternative, and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness.
Mary Ann:
Maybe I didn't understand the book!
 

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Frances Moore Lappe - Quotes

 The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves. 

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Dangerous Beauty - Quotes

 Veronica Franco:
You... all of you... you who hunger so for what I give, but cannot bear to see such power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift... ourselves, our yearning, our need to love... you call it filth and sin and heresy.
 

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Quotes

 Shukhov ate his supper without bread--a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly--it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day. 

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Andy Mckenzie - Quotes

 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. 

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John Steinbeck - Quotes

 ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals? 

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Mark Bittman - Quotes

 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. 

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Arnold Palmer - Quotes

 Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. 

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Quotes

 We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith. 

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Marshall Sahlins - Quotes

 One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture. 

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Quotes

 Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach). 

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Fidel Castro - Quotes

 The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. 

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Jorie Graham - Quotes

 Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less. 

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Robert Jordan - Quotes

 Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything. 

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Betty Friedan - Quotes

 The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism. 

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Paul Auster - Quotes

 In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life 

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