

“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating a hamburger can now make you seriously ill: There is shit in the meat.”
― Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
― Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago

“He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.”
― Snow Falling on Cedars
― Snow Falling on Cedars

“Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture

“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.”
― A Delicate Marriage
― A Delicate Marriage
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