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• It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

  Grant Morrison

  Sprinkles, Salt, Good Enough

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• Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

  John Updike

  Pain, Writing, Shields

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 22, 2013

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• What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blood, Soul, Veins

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• Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

  Jack London

  Loss, Men, Brain

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

  Charlaine Harris

  Love, Life, Optimistic

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Children, Real, African American

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.179, Kodansha America

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• When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ocean, Blessed, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.84, editionNEXT.com

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• You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river.

  Cate Tiernan

  Strong, Wine, Rivers

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Shade, Eccentric

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Taken, Boys

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.965, Bantam

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• Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Shoes, Laughing, Sound

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• Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

  Dr. Seuss

  Mom, Cat, Dresses

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• Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Brave New World, Drug

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.

  Umberto Eco

  Wine, Night, Other Worlds

  Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Memento, Unlikely

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Sea Storm”, p.61, Penguin

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• Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Wings, Giving

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.29

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• [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

  William Blake

  Morning, Light, Dew

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

  E. B. White

  Milk And Honey, Forever, Cooking

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• Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Long Ago, Tree, Shepherds

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

  Trish Stratus

  Fighting, Wwe, Careers

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• Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

  Sheryl Crow

  Sorry, Sadness, Texas

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• Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kids, Blood, Littles

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• Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

  Annette Bening

  Who I Am, Class, Oklahoma

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• One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Choices, Nuclear, Bees

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