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• As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

  Alice Walker

  Justice, One Day, Firsts

  Alice Walker (1996). “Alice Walker Banned”

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• If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

  Aravind Adiga

  Past, Men, Ifs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Novelists

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

  Chuck Close

  Names, Feet, Long

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• People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people.

  Henry Threadgill

  Player, Ideas, People

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• You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

  Steven Wright

  Branches, Twigs, Knows

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• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Thinking, Media

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Buddhist, Swings, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My sister Suga Tee is doing conscious rap. She speaks to the youth. She has an album coming out soon. She got saved but she is still doing her thing. She still spits good game. She's talented. She sings. I don't know if a lot of people know this but Suga Tee has a beautiful voice. So ya'll look out for her album you dig? And look forward to a future Clique album.

  E-40

  Beautiful, Rap, Games

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• He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Ceilings

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.698, Vintage

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• Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.

  Annie Dillard

  Morning, Eden, Dust

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Water, Shadow

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  War, Mean, Fighting

  As quote in "Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism" by Amir Taheri, (pp. 241-243), 1987.

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• I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Nails, Unions

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• The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

  Mobutu Sese Seko

  Eagles, Toads, Chiefs

  "The Fate of Africa". Book by Martin Meredith (p. 525), October 1991.

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• Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Wind, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3203, Manonmani Publishers

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• It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

  Paul Theroux

  Moving, Window, Fashionable

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

  Louis Sachar

  Giving, Dollars, Give Me

  Louis Sachar (2011). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom”, p.29, Yearling

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• Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt? You put on something from the cleaners, they're gonna spit up just like that. My wardrobe looks like we have condors living in our yard.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Baby, Humor

  "You Might Be a Redneck If". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1993.

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• That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow." "This...isn't...the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth. Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?" "Immeasurably." "Good. Give me ten.

  Judy Blundell

  Hate, Moving, Giving

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• No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.

  William Herndon

  Book, Cities, Infidelity

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• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

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• He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

  Holly Black

  Running, Misery

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• ...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ink, World, Taught

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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