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Hunger

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Banana Yoshimoto Novelist
Hunger

"Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?"

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Hunger

"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Hunger

"In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
Hunger

"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Hunger

"There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat."

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