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• Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

  Rumi

  Wine, Intelligent, Men

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• Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

  Tom Robbins

  Fifty, Clock, Cents

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• Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Fire, Squares

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Drunk

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• Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Fire, Years

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 8

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• However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

  Sarah Vowell

  Hate, War, Coffee

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

  Anthony Trollope

  Coffee, Book, Earth

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.295, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Two, Apples

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• An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Rain, Coffee, Adventure

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• And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

  Alice Munro

  Coffee, Men, Thinking

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

  Alice Sebold

  Coffee, Dark, People

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• I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.” The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I work out.” Violet asked me, “What are you? What’s your cup size?” I shrugged and played along. “Like, nine and a half?” I guessed. “That’s my shoe size.” Violet said, “I think he’d like something slinky, kind of silky.” I said, “As long as you can stop me from rubbing myself up against a wall the whole time.” “Okay,” said Violet, holding her hands up like she was annoyed. “Okay, the chemise last week was a mistake.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Girl, Wall, Mistake

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• I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Loneliness, Twenties, Littles

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.59, Quirk Books

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.

  Salman Rushdie

  Growing Up, People, Parent

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Heart, Emptiness

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 15, 2014

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• It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup

  Sanath Jayasuriya

  Play, World, Able

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• We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Hard Work, Golf, Winning

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• I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, World, Spirit

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 12, 2014.

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• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  World, Levels, Protection

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