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• His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

  Samuel Johnson

  Headache, Used, Steam

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• I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

  Iggy Pop

  Light, Iguanas, Boss

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack LaLanne

  Good Morning, Sick, Cups

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• My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  Anton du Beke

  Morning, Reading, Drinking

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• There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Thinking, Doe, Woods

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• It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Dog, People, Interesting

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

  Chris Kattan

  Fun, Light, Yellow

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

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• Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Cups, Starbucks, Coffee Cup

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• I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

  Tim Vine

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.

  Jacques Prevert

  White, Tea, Spoons

  'Dèjeuner du Matin'

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• I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

  Ronnie Wood

  Lines, Cups, Drink

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

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• I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

  John Feldmann

  Morning, Ocean, Kids

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Beer, Cities, People

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Hippie, Pages

  The Adding Machine "Remembering Jack Kerouac" (1985)

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• After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

  Diane Ackerman

  Flavor, Bitter, Dangerous

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.141, Vintage

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• I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Drinking, Rain, Talking

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• English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.

  Fred Allen

  Water, Taste, Sleeves

  Fred Allen (2009). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.167, Wildside Press LLC

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• The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

  Keith Miller

  Writing, Wine, Loss

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• It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Cups, Murder, Easier

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• Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.

  Joan Frank

  Eye, Teeth, May

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• Coffee, though a useful medicine, if drunk constantly will at length induce a decay of health , and hectic fever.

  Jesse Torrey

  Medicine, Drunk, Decay

  The Moral Instructor Pt IV, Sect. II, Ch. 10

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• Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strong, Pain, Giving

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• I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

  Charles Dickens

  Spirit, Settling, States

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

  Edna Lewis

  Children, Growing Up, Smell

  Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Knopf

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• Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses

  Jason Behr

  Weakness, Cigarette

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