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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Literarily, reading about food is more interesting than reading about sex.
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Then again, the relative success of the essay may also have something to do with the diminishing national attention span. These days one sees a novel of four hundred pages, sighs, and says, "There goes a week of my reading life.".
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The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
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Joseph Epstein
Born:
October 16, 1911
Died:
April 11, 1944
(aged 32)
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