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1 " Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? " Chinatown?" suggests someone. " Costco?" " Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. " Hello, I'm from the university" - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries. "
2 " When Doris had died so long ago, it was weeks before Mary could think clearly and remember what she was supposed to do the next minute and then the minute after that. Even though Doris had shown Mary how to get rid of the chiggers that burrowed under the skin or how to add potatoes to bread to make it heavy so it would fill a stomach faster, she had never explained how she had survived the death of a husband and the loss of a child. Parents never told their real secrets. They never let you know how they lived in the spaces between working and cooking and running after children and counting dollars. "
― Marisa Silver , Mary Coin
3 " Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? "
― Ayn Rand , We the Living
4 " I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that. "
― Josephine Baker
5 " Without commitment and real selflessness, real love shall always be like a sea without fish; a forest without the sweet harmonious chorus of the birds and a stomach without food "
6 " A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. "
