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• If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Giving, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.114

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• His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

  Irving Stone

  Mind, Lap, Comeback

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• Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Party, Meals

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

  Rumi

  Sweet, Healing, Water

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 19: "Jesus Poems", p. 204, 1995.

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• Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

  Harville Hendrix

  Gold, Raw Emotion, Conflict

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

  David Reuben

  Dark, Vegetables, White

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• It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

  Tennessee Williams

  Saying Goodbye, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

  Cassandra Clare

  Tomatoes, Olives, Peanuts

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want any soup?" "No one wants any soup." "I want some soup," Simon said. "No, you don't," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle." Simon was appalled. "That is not true." "How flattering," Isabelle murmured into the soup, but she was smirking. "Oh, yes it is," said Jace. "Go ahead and ask her—then she can turn you down and the rest of us can get on with our lives while you fester in miserable humiliation." He snapped his fingers. "Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Boys, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blessed, Hands, Giving

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.96, Penguin

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• I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Children, Lying, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Book, House, Tree

  Jane Hirshfield, “Tree”

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• I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Body, Sugar, Waste

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.155, Penguin

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• I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Nice, Home, Wine

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.175, Feiwel & Friends

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• Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Beautiful, Black, Strange

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony

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• It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

  Daniel Handler

  Change, Trust, Simple

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• But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Jobs, Recovery, Mean

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

  George Burns

  Happiness, Home, Mean

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• The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

  Richard Preston

  Way, Best Way, Knows

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• To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Night, Needs

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• Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Courageous, States

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

  Jack Canfield

  Book, Soul, Never Quit

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• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  Richard Simmons

  Peanut Butter, Doe, Magazines

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• Love seems to be the appreciation that we are all little lumps in the same earthly soup which is a little lump in a larger cosmic soup. So, love is an awareness of this beautiful energetic relationship and a natural appreciation of this situation. It doesn't seem to be a matter of finding love...it's a matter of being aware of it. It's not a question of invention but rather discovery.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Love Is

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• Always make stock in a large quantity and freeze it in plastic bags. That way, when you want to make a nice soup or boil veggies, you can simply pull the bag out of the freezer.

  Charlie Trotter

  Nice, Way, Bags

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