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• The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Cities, People, Monsters

  "Q&A: Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, World

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• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Ice, Tears

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Spring, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

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• A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

  James Patterson

  Good Love, Stories, Love Story

  "How To Write A Killer Thriller". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Water, Cooking, Energy

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandma, Water, Interesting

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• I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Philosophical, Emotional, Oil

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Kings, Pigs, Sea

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• After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Boiling Over, Answers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Love Is

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• Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Voice, Water

  "Finding the Voice of Truth Amid the Noise of Old and New Media" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

  David Levithan

  People, Going Away, Resentment

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.77, Egmont UK

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• Victor: What does it feel like to be in love? Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world.

  Nick Dear

  Heart, Fire, Doe

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• A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

  Sydney Smith

  Men, Way In Life, Hands

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.232

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• how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

  Emily Bronte

  Ice Water, Veins, Mines

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• Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

  Bella Pollen

  One Day, Pressure, Steam

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Strong, Fire, Light

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• Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Jumping, Pits

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• We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws!

  Kathryn Lasky

  Ice, Weather, Joy

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• For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

  Zadie Smith

  Salt, Lost, Oneself

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.37, Vintage

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• I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: “You’re blue.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Blue, Gone

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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