• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage
  American composer and music 1912-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. putrefaction
2. appearance
3. amounts
4. improve
5. small
6. added

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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. by : John Cage

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