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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Doors, Tables, Wells

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.7.

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• Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Struggle, Italian, Order

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• I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

  John Grisham

  Hours

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• It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

  Molly O'Neill

  Morning, Uncles, Drinking

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Real, Boys, Saint

  The New York Times, April 18, 1967.

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• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

  P. D. James

  Morning, Believe, Political

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• The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Morning, Coffee

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.318, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.

  Rickey Henderson

  Eggs, Ems, Grit

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• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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• I never eat before breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

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• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  A. P. Herbert

  Marriage, Time, Periods

  Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"

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• My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Health, Thinking, Lunch

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• I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Thinking, Important, Energy

  "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". Interview with Caitlin Brown, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Company

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• I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Commitment, Lunch, Hunger

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• I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Friday, Monday, Eggs

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• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Yunjin Kim

  Lunch, Dinner, Eating

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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• The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Cooks, Know How

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• This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. Its super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries.

  April Bowlby

  Sweet, Turkeys, Eggs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Order, Eggs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

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• Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Ducks, Pie

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