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• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Cousin, Father, Nice

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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• I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Coffee, Eating, Restaurants

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• To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.

  Umberto Eco

  Atheist, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

  Patrick Swayze

  Eye, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

  Kristin Cashore

  Cake, Torture, Knows

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.175, Penguin

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• Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, People, Suggestions

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• Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

  Shannon Hale

  Beats, Said, Concern

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.185, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

  Gail Carriger

  Dog, Men, Terrible

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dad, Tired, Grandmother

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Misery, Trust Me

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

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• The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

  PZ Myers

  Country, Fate, Unique

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Winter, Doctors

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• In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Running, Spiritual, Passion

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• Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

  Kristin Cashore

  Cake, Torture

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• The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

  Austin O'Malley

  Spiritual, Half, Causes

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• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Feelings, Vision, Purpose

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Hero, Passion

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• Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

  Susanna Clarke

  Eye, Half, Odd

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• The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doctors, Solitude, Suffering

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

  Cindy Crawford

  Insomnia, Hay Fever, Names

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• Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thanksgiving, Suicide, Children

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• And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

  Audre Lorde

  Hope, Morning, Fear

  Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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