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• A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

  Truman Capote

  Loneliness, Hunger, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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• Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

  Dean Young

  Dream, Writing, Sleep

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• Salt. Wound. Together at last.

  Maureen Johnson

  Together, Lasts, Wounds

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• Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Church, Mosques, World

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• A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Lying, Littles, Seasons

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.495, Macmillan

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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• Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kindness, Moments, Feels

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feel Better, People, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

  Henry Rollins

  Falling In Love, Passion, Rivers

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• I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

  Monique Truong

  Sea, Sweat, Kitchen

  "The Book of Salt" by Monique Truong, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2003.

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• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Stars, Men, Long

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• Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.

  Pablo Neruda

  Disappointment, Heart, Moon

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.139, City Lights Books

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• Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Patriotic, Blessing

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

  Suzanne Collins

  Water, Promise, Pages

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Ideas, Trying, Emotion

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• We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Commitment, Past

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. January 14, 1981.

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• In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

  Lech Walesa

  Two, Justice, People

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• A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

  Florence King

  Home, Grandmother, Eggs

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.65, Macmillan

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• In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

  Olivia Wilde

  Bad Ass, Men, Roles

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• Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

  Karl Malone

  Basketball, Lakes, Utah

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• Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

  Sue Grafton

  Grief, Grieving, Space

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Disappointment, Disappointment Love, Disappoint

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.116

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• ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

  John Marsden

  Dark, Yelling, Dancing

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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