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Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.


Benjamin Percy

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ALEXANDRA PAUL It's similar meat and potatoes but different seasoning. The new fund is much smaller ... and that pr...
JOHN SCHREIBER Also, with men, there's a preference toward comfort food that's a little more healthy, like meat, pa...
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WOODY ALLEN Above all, my family is deeply important to me and will remain so in the years ahead.
DONNA HANOVER They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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Percy: the ...
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LEON ASKIN My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will rema...
WILLIAM SHATNER And you, Percy, are my favorite son.
RICK RIORDAN Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.
DAVID GAY My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE The financial highlights offered at the beginning of the report tend to focus on what they (the comp...
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FRANK DEFORD It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things a...
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GRAHAM ELLIOT It's only the meat and potatoes. When you are looking through the textbook, you're not seeing all th...
KEVIN BUSHMAN To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the...
BETTE DAVIS To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the ...
BETTE DAVIS I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for sta...
NEIL GAIMAN As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply fold...
ARTHUR SYMONS As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply fold...
ARTHUR SYMONS Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
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JESUS CHRIST Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for mea...
PETER SINGER The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out o...
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RICK RIORDAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE So? What are you going to do about it? Throw your mashed potatoes at me? I'm consumed by terror.
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MORDECAI RICHLER To prove me a piece of shit would be a waste of your time and an insult to me that should not be for...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. People want meat and potatoes and the chance to dine out and experience eclectic cuisine. We?re shoo...
ANDREW CORBIN I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you -- Benjamin
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KATHY FRESTON Face it - potatoes are boring. But everybody loves them. The challenge is to update potatoes in ways...
LISA FISHER Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
JULIA GLASS I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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RICK RIORDAN What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo...
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RICK YANCEY I couldn't find a bass player who could actually play meat-and-potatoes bass without being all crazy...
LED ZEPPELIN If I want mashed potatoes, I make cauliflower mashed potatoes, which taste exactly the same. I basic...
CHRISSY TEIGEN Just shut up and entertain me, meat puppet.
BRADLEY WHITFORD Percy let me go, she croaked. You can't pull me up.

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STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me."
"Forget that you tried to ki...
RICK RIORDAN I walked every single day; three months and two weeks. I told my mom: 'No potatoes, no rice, no nood...
LOLA WILLIAMS All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my d...
POPE BENEDICT XVI ...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a convic...
JONATHAN WATERMAN I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
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ANDREW FERENCE It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
PAT CONROY Most importantly, I am thankful to Prime Minister Koizumi, ... As I said openly during my court-mart...
CHARLES JENKINS Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends."
The horse nickered.
"U...
RICK RIORDAN I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is...
BENJAMIN PERCY My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first...
BENJAMIN PERCY Fight back. Bite back.
BENJAMIN PERCY Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels...
BENJAMIN PERCY ...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a d...
BENJAMIN PERCY What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.
BENJAMIN PERCY I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, reall...
BENJAMIN PERCY People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their...
BENJAMIN PERCY I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to ...
BENJAMIN PERCY It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work pub...
BENJAMIN PERCY I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.
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BENJAMIN PERCY Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But the...
BENJAMIN PERCY I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
BENJAMIN PERCY I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.
BENJAMIN PERCY Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST. The Enemy can't destroy me without destroying my Helper, and since Christ is my Helper, i remain ind...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU If you do what you always did you will always remain what you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI What you give away with love will always remain with you.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: I...
RICK RIORDAN As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think ab...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic l...
SCARLETT THOMAS I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
EVAN HUNTER People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
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PERCY ROSS Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
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PERCY ROSS The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. T...
WALKER PERCY Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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IAN PERCY I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is th...
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PERCY ROSS The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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PERCY ROSS It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect...
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THOMAS PERCY Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no, I d...
THOMAS PERCY Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if t...
PERCY CERUTTY I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunio...
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WALKER PERCY Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
WALKER PERCY If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
PERCY SUTTON To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
WALKER PERCY He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight. - Thomas Percy...
THOMAS PERCY King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all...
THOMAS PERCY On the outer fringe of the parish are the four-wheelers-those who come only by pram for their christ...
PERCY LUTTON I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself....
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PERCY WILLIAMS We never got our head clear from the first storm. Right now, we're just three weeks into the apartme...
PERCY WILLIAMS Yeah, one more time. One more time.
PERCY WILLIAMS A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
PERCY ROSS 'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Lef...
PERCY SLEDGE My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has...
WALKER PERCY Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pl...
WALKER PERCY Had there been an even larger turnout, she'd have won by much more. It's wonderful. She's from a ver...
PERCY SUTTON Such terms as 'diagnosis' and 'pathology' are of course used analogically here, but I am using the w...
WALKER PERCY It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary low...
WALKER PERCY My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
WALKER PERCY Every white will have its black, And every sweet its sour.
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THOMAS PERCY He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree; Itt's pride that putts the cou...
THOMAS PERCY Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine, For violets pluckt, the sweetest sh...
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PERCY SIMELANE People usually told him the same joke two or three times.
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PERCY MONTROSE You can get all A's and still flunk life.
WALKER PERCY You can get all A's and flunk life.
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PERCY JULIAN Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w...
PERCY SLEDGE At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself,...
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WALKER PERCY Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl...
PERCY SLEDGE I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice c...
PERCY SLEDGE The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...
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MARK PERCY Austin pitched well for us. The thing is teams are going to get hits against our pitchers and we hav...
MARK PERCY We were pleased the way our kids hung in there in the first game and came back to win it.
MARK PERCY Their pitcher was good but again, we're not hitting the baseball. When we do, we hit it right at peo...
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PERCY MONTROSE If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The soul's joy lies in doing.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ev...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Woe is me!
The winged words on which my soul would pierce
Into the heights of love's rare uni...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Mild is the slow necessity of death;
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
Without a gr...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial dest...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All orthodox opinion -- that is, today, revolutionary opinion either of the pure or the impure varie...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chiva...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The soul's joy lies in doing.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smalles...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unre...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avo...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive C...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells a...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain we...
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PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore,...
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By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; The...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY