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• I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Thinking, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

  Reed Hastings

  Nice, Want, Vitamins

  "How Netflix got started". Interview with Alyssa Abkowitz, archive.fortune.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Safety, Water, Car

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• For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Dark, Gay

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

  Gerald Durrell

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

  Gerald Durrell (2006). “My Family and Other Animals”, p.203, Penguin UK

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• You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

  Anne Lamott

  Letting Go, Hurt, Children

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• A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts.

  John Dos Passos

  Ice Cream, People, Intellectual

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

  Richard Rorty

  Plato, Philosophical, Giving

  Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus, believermag.com. June 1, 2003.

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• Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Lying, Gun, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

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• Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Chocolate, Pearls

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.15, Univ of California Press

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• Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Sight, Blood

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Medicine

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• There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

  John Powell

  Wisdom, Pain, Soul

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• THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

  Robert Orben

  Two, Would Be, World

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Movie, Failure, Six

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Opiates, Littles

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

  Lawrence Block

  Lying, Writing, Dark

  Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

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• For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

  Mara Liasson

  Two, Long, Going Away

  "Despite Backlash Over Muslim Comments, Supporters Stand By Trump". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Blood, Hands

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• I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Volleyball, Blood

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Two, Car, Headache

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• We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

  Stewart Udall

  Block, Average, Car

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