"Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession."
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"For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food."
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"Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger."
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"Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger."
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"Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits."
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"Love comes with hunger."
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"... where there was hunger there would also be bread."
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"There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger."
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"Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case."
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"The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate."
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"Hunger is never delicate."
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"Hunger makes a fool of a man."
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"When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread."
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"If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more."
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"...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger."
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"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."
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"The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat."
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"Hunger is good discipline."
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"There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder."
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"A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet."
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