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• Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Birthday, Lying, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept

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• But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

  Robert Kuttner

  Two, Doe, May

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.14, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Taste, Pennies

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

  James Thurber

  Wedding, Food, Culinary

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• ...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

  Tom Robbins

  Language

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.207, Bantam

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• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  Oscar Wilde

  Missing, Tea, May

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.402, Courier Dover Publications

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• Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Cooking, Matter

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.

  Craig Benzine

  Trying, Way, Honest

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• Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

  Jane Asher

  Running, Fun, Home

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• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  W. H. Auden

  Rain, Complaining, Looks

  Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden (1981). Leonard L. Levinson, in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971), quotes this comment as being said about Auden by someone else.

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• Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Taken, Good Friend, Needs

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• Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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

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• The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes

  Joe

  Kale, Cupcakes, Balance

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• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  Walter Lord

  Birthday, Sagging, Stem

  Walter Lord (2012). “A Night to Remember”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  Margot Asquith

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Lying

  In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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• A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Literature, Baking

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

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• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Suicidal, Tea

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• If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

  Brian Greene

  Icing, Theory, Turns

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

  Georgette Heyer

  Writing, Judging, Wish

  "The Private World of Georgette Heyer". Book by Jane Hodge, 2011.

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• So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Hands, Color

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

  Cam'ron

  Accomplishment, Literature, Path

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• We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Birthday Cake

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• Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fun, Eggs, Oatmeal

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• "Forget Barbie, f-ck Nicki she's fake. She's on a diet", but my pockets eating cheese cake.

  Nicki Minaj

  Pockets, Cheese, Bragging

  "Monster". Song by Kanye West Featuring Bon Iver, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & JAY-Z,

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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

  Willa Cather

  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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