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• The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

  Harlan Coben

  Beer, Peanut Butter, Hot

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Harlan Coben 3 Novel Collection”, p.836, Penguin

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• Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Names, Fruit, Whisky

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really seen or felt it. So I would try and catch it in jars. When that failed, I captured jars and jars of lightening bugs and told her that if we could catch enough of them, then it would look like the sun. She’d laugh, hug me, and then set them free and tell me that nothing should have to live its life in a cage. (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Mother, Sunshine

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• Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

  Fannie Flagg

  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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• He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected.

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Gun, Names

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• I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Fighting, People

  "The Bell Jar".

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• From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared.

  J.R. Ward

  Fighting, Night, Race

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• Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Grieving, Doors

  "The Last Continent". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, America, Taught

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.247, Penguin

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• While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Rivers

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• I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stars, Breathe, Holes

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• About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display and then at the times when we had 6 different flavors of jam out on display only 40% of the people actually stopped, so more people were clearly attracted to the larger varieties of options, but then when it came down to buying, so the second thing we looked at is in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam. What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam.

  Sheena Iyengar

  People, Different, Jam

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam.

  Sheena Iyengar

  People, Different, Jam

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.

  Julia Stiles

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Memories, Blessed

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.31, Whitaker House

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• Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.

  Jim Cummings

  Honey, Sometimes, Asks

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• Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Recovery, Race, Europe

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• People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?

  Julie Kagawa

  Humorous, Testicles, Freeze

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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, Party, Men

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• Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Oil, Lazy

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Teenage, Actors, Dangerous

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Contemplative Life, People, Upset

  Elizabeth Janeway (1964). “Accident”

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• We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Leaving

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