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• Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

  Steven Wright

  Time, Sorry, Mind

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• Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Heart, Sunday

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• Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dating, Get Better, Trying

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.

  Christopher Paolini

  Sweet, Thinking, Delight

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1460, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Halloween, Moon

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

  Gloria Whelan

  Children, House, Cooking

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• Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Real, Sleep, Bed

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• Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Crazy, Fall, Shadow

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• Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Land, Funny Things

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

  Warren Ellis

  Gun, Training, Criminals

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• Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

  Rick Riordan

  War, Army, Broken

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• I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Water, Thank God, Looks

  A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House

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• There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Distance, Eye

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.

  Lisa McMann

  Notebook, Important, Bed

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• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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• If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Animal, Choices

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• A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Cities, Hot, Three

  Alastair Reynolds (2010). “Terminal World”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

  Jeannette Walls

  Forever, Gone, Afternoon

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

  Stephan Pastis

  Color, Talking, People

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• Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.

  Jane Lindskold

  Departed, Desire, Wolf Packs

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• Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

  Louise Fitzhugh

  Lying, Feel Better, People

  Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.246, Yearling

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• We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Suicide, Baby, Blow

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We gotta stick by each other, okay? And meals- as long as you live under the same roof, you have at least one meal a day together. I don't care if it's a dreaded hot dog in front of the dastardly TV as long as you're all there. -Maeve Bennett

  James Patterson

  Dog, Long, Together

  James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (2008). “Step on a crack”

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• It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!

  Katherine Applegate

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• Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum.

  Tanya Huff

  Fun, Hands, Listening

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