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• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Creating, Agony

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• I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, People, Calm

  "Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Coffee, White, Numbers

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.

  Lewis Carroll

  House, Dining, Manners

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.

  Richard Simmons

  Years, Differences, Oatmeal

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.orlandosentinel.com. April 18, 2012.

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• We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brain, Ears, Enough

  Source: www.sffworld.com

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• I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Kids, Sandwiches, Littles

  "Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin and why Russia Today is just like CNN". Interview with Dana Priest, www.washingtonpost.com. August 15, 2016.

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  Eric Clapton

  Kings, Monk, Armstrong

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• Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

  James Dobson

  Mother, Dog, Play

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• I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Work Out, Want, Loses

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• I grew up in the 90s, so Ive definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

  Devin Kelley

  Shoes, Looks, Youth

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• I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

  Nina Conti

  Shoes, Red, Like You

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• Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Fire, Flames

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.138, Collector's Library

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• I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.

  Channing Tatum

  Wife, Tree, Coconuts

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Old Friends, Scandal

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

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• The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Men, Yellow

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• The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hands, Goal, Littles

  Brandon Sanderson (2015). “Firefight”, p.132, Delacorte Press

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• Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.

  Jase Robertson

  Fun, Peanut Butter, Peanuts

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• Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots." "Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him.

  Janet Evanovich

  Checks, Shots, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.24, Macmillan

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

  Leif Enger

  Hate, Wings, Shadow

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.36, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Suffering, Gutters

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• Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

  Tariq Ali

  Yellow, Politician, Proximity

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