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• I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.

  Orrin Hatch

  Sleep, Night, Government

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• [According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Iraq, Energy

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• Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass until he can't come anymore.

  Frank Zappa

  Social Taboos, Giving, Sauce

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• About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.

  Clement Freud

  Bird, Insulting, May

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• As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Boys, Giving

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• So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Gun, Men, Two

  Brandon Sanderson (2018). “Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)”, p.307, Tor Books

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• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Tomatoes, Los Angeles, Cheeseburger

  "Zoë Kravitz On Adrenaline, Comfort Food And Her Dad’s Best Advice", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2013.

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• What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Reality, Numbers, Two

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• Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, People

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• [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Wish, Looks, Remarks

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• I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

  Robin McKinley

  Food, Anxiety, Potatoes

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• I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Motorcycle, Want, Dies

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• The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

  Emily Carr

  Events, Done, Outstanding

  c.1940 Quoted in Ira Dilworth's foreword to Klee Wyck (1951edn).

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• The assistant asked, `What do you want on it?' and Leo said, `Oh, Kate will tell you.' And Leo just kind of fell asleep. And I did know exactly what he wanted - this kind of cheese and no tomato and no pickle. I absolutely knew. And I thought, `God, that's really weird that I know this person so well.' It was brilliant.

  Kate Winslet

  Tomatoes, Want, Assistants

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• When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Hello, princess,” said Lord Maccon to the vampire. “Got yourself into quite a pickle this time, didn't you?” Lord Akeldama looked him up and down. “My sweet young naked boy, you are hardly one to talk. Not that I mind, of course.

  Gail Carriger

  Sweet, Princess, Boys

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• On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

  Eric Carle

  Night, Pie, Ice Cream

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin

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• Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

  Chris Cleave

  Doctors, Giving, Cheese

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Party, Hair

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• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Home, Past

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• A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Two, Squash

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Martial

  Lakes, Water, Noble

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• I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

  Melina Marchetta

  Thinking, Hands, Knowing

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• [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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