Alberto Giacometti in: James Lord (1965), Giacometti Portrait, p. 11-12; as cited in: James Olney (1998), Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. p. 331
“The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
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