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The Fats of Life: Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Disease

by Glen D. Lawrence

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Jul 03, 2014 11:50PM

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Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy (and Really Well)

by Peter Kaminsky

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Jun 12, 2013 01:20PM

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The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently (Consumption and Public Life)

by F. Trentmann

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Peter’s Quotes

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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