"Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself."
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"I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living."
"I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight."
"No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand."
"To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation."
"It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance"
"When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life."
"The accursed hunger for gold."
"He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught."
"It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene."
"However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten"
"Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger."
"I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all."
"The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves."
"Try to be free: you will die of hunger."
"It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house."
"Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating."
"The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change."
"For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity."
"When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened."