Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97
“For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.”
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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2008
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
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Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)