Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui … - M. F. K. Fisher

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Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.

M. F. K. Fisher

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

Arrows, Carefree, Chance, Danger, Passion, Stress

Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

Eggs, Knows, Moment, Oysters, Start, Years

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

Acceptance, Age, Bearable, Early, Loved, Old

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

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France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

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