51 Quotes About Cereal




  • Author Kathleen Norris
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    To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

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  • Author Eric Spitznagel
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    He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.

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  • Author Michael Moss
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    Some candy bars had more protein than many cereals. [Jean] Mayer dubbed them "sugar-coated vitamin pills" and wrote, "I contend that these cereals containing over 50% sugar should be labeled imitation cereal or cereal confections, and they should be sold in the candy section rather than in the cereal section.

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  • Author Erynn Mangum
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    Jen's been hiding the sugary cereals behind the granola, so I forget we have them. It's not a very nice thing to do.Jen likes the granola that feels like crackling leaves.I like cereal with taste as opposed to feelings.

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