liver quotes

Life loves the liver of it. Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  Interview in Black Scholar,  Jan^Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

Homosexuality wasthebadge oftheupperclass and the sign of a revolt against it; and it is small wonder that someone locked for a lifetime in this impossible contradiction should end up with cirrhosis of the liver.

-Terry Eagleton
  Review of Sean French's Patrick Hamilton: a Life (1993). In the London Review of Books, 2 Dec.

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

A census taker once tried to test me, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

-Ted Tally
  Anthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter ('Hannibal the Cannibal') in The Silence of the Lambs.