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• The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

  Adam Johnson

  Next Day, Breakfast, Silent

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• This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Too Much, Refuse

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.137, Yearling

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• In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Giving, Cuisine

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• He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Layers, Busy, Peeling

  Ray Bradbury (1967). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.19, Dramatic Publishing

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• A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor.

  Johnny Trigg

  Black, Add, Flavor

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• ...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

  Graham Greene

  Miserable, Individual, Make Me Happy

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Dark, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.172, Bantam

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• You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, White, Where You Come

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Don't get me wrong. I love a Denver omelette as much as the next girl. But I'm curious whether that’s your thing, or if you try to change up the routine depending on the specific woman. You know… like, green pepper because I have green eyes, ham because I’m so funny, and onions for all the tears you’ll shed after I leave.

  Julie James

  Girl, Eye, Tears

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.74, Penguin

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• If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Evil, Black

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1164, Bantam

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• The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

  Laura Esquivel

  Tears, Next, Cry

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

  James Beard

  Food, Heart, Adventure

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Couple, Home, Tomatoes

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• We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

  David Zucker

  Directors, Watches, Trenches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Should

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• I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

  Zoe Helene

  Ayahuasca, Levels, Littles

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• For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder.

  Johnny Trigg

  Sweet, Light, Black

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• We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Secret, Brain

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.226, Faber & Faber

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• Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

  Rufus Choate

  Cat, Worship, Lows

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• Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.

  Dallas Campbell

  Answers, Littles, Back In The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Mind, Machines

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• I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

  Heather Mitts

  Morning, Cutting, Mushrooms

  Source: preview.www.realbeauty.com

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• So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Want

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House

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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Cooking, Ceilings

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Roots, Cooking

  Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (2011). “Alice in Zombieland”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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