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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Kitchen

"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Kitchen

"The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Kitchen

"Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --"

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Philip Roth Novelist
Kitchen

"And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania"

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Kitchen

"The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Kitchen

"It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Kitchen

"I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories"

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Bryant Terry Chef, Author
Kitchen

"In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses."

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