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• That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana." This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

  Cassandra Clare

  Yellow, Eric, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.

  Janet Evanovich

  Peanut Butter, Jelly, Sandwiches

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

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• Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Special, Hot, Stories

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

  Lauren Child

  Potatoes, Pretending, Display

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• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crush, Girl, Running

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• Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

  Rick Yancey

  Perfect, Legs, Pants

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.231, Penguin UK

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• Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. “I’d give you the moon right now,” she said. Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. “Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Moon, Giving

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.611, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.

  William Tenn

  Humility, Apes, Manners

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• When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Age, May

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• Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind of fallacy 'the Argument from Personal Incredulity.' Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intellectual, Skins

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, March 20, 2014.

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• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  Alexander Beresford Hope

  Dream, Country, Rights

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

  Kingsley Amis

  Strong, Writing, Wine

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

  Saul Williams

  Eye, Poetry, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.

  Kim Smith

  Workout, Team, Play

  Source: www.ptmollie.com

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• I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Nuts, Clean, Percent

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• We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Men, Islands

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• I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because I believe that, Wayne is nice! Wayne is bananas with his lyrics, with his whole delivery, with his whole thing. Lil Wayne is the man!

  KRS-One

  Nice, Believe, Men

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• With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Cowboy, Purple

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Shortage, Capitalism

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• When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

  Noel Gallagher

  Girl, Winning, Class

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Latin, Media, Leader

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I remember the first day I got there, they started the take and after four takes I was on the ground, on my back, with a banana and a Twizzler in my hand, and my face was green, and they said, "You can't get back on set for another 30 minutes." That was a, "Welcome to Atlanta," and that put everything in perspective.

  Steven Yeun

  Atlanta, Hands, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.

  Brian Littrell

  Home, School, Years

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• So you're sayin that it's easy to send somat up to space, but you don't believe there's a little banana machine?

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Space, Machines

  Podcast (Series 1, Episode 1),

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