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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Laughing, Email

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

  James A. Owen

  Simple, People, Evil

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• I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

  James Frey

  Years, Cake, Looks

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.63, Penguin

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Bullying, Peaches, Apologetic

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Heaven

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Meat, Hot, Buns

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• It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Love, Sweet, Kissing

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.229, Bantam

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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, Ice Cream, Cupcakes

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

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• Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

  Stephen King

  Way, Pimples, Lord

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.55, Anchor

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Sauce, Potatoes

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

  Fighting, Blessing, Clouds

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• A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Creating, Sky

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• But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Hands, People

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• Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

  Michel'le

  Giving Up, Giving, Pieces

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• We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

  Guy Ritchie

  Inspirational, Humble, Unique

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• American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Self, Feminism

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

  Sara Blakely

  Sweet, Husband, Night

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Wind, Magic, Use

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• He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!

  Sarah MacLean

  Waiting, Tarts, Pauses

  Sarah MacLean (2011). “Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I . . . hit him . . . elsewhere.” “Where?” “In his . . .In his inguine.” “Oh, dear God.” It was unclear whether Ralston’s words were meant as prayer or blasphemy. What was clear was that the woman was a gladiator. “He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!” She registered her brother’s fists and looked to Simon. “I see that it is not a compliment.” “No. It is not.

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Prayer, Waiting

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• I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Country, Names, May

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.348, Penguin

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• She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mother, Dog, Halloween

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Running, Long, Pace

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• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cat, Cutting, Night

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