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• I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.

  Sophie Monk

  Past, Guy, Deeds

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• Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

  Andre Gide

  Drunk, Becoming, Emotion

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• Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hurt, Confused, Self

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Closing words, 1968.

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• Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Wailing, Aloof

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.395, Delphi Classics

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• The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

  Maxim Gorky

  Morning, Children, Dirty

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  Felix Dennis

  Sleep, Tired, Should Have

  "What I know about women". Interview with Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Vitality, Degrees

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 20, 1891.

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• Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Eye, Dark

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• Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Breathing, Dobermans, Favors

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• Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

  Laura Riding

  Sex, Couple, Monogamy

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Damned Thing", 1928.

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• One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Morning, Blessed, America

  Manuscript notes when writing what would later become the song "This Land Is Your Land", February 23, 1940.

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• The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?

  John van Hengel

  Poor

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Doors, Wind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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• I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

  Mason Cooley

  Eating

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• One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Woods, Melody

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.226

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Swimming, Sea

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

  Claude McKay

  Way, Familiar

  Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.94, Rutgers University Press

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Pie, Vision

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

  George Horne

  Men, Meat, Salt

  George Horne (1818). “The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings”, p.421

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• You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, Dry, Fats

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.

  Willem de Kooning

  Rain, Home, Night

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 135, 1983.

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• Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Race, America

  2000 In The Times, Dec 26.

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• Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

  Howard Zinn

  Reality, Self, Hands

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.9, Beacon Press

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