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• I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Toads, Want

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Doors

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

  Christopher Walken

  Men, Actors, Bigs

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• The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Thinking, Cities

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• Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

  Ann Burton

  Honesty, Simple, Feelings

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• I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

  Jill Scott

  Pain, Artist, Thinking

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• If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

  Denis Leary

  Real, Character, Flip

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• He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teeth, Pears, Protest

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her thoughts were flashing before his eyes. Finally Brett managed to pull away without consent of Bekka's lips. The confusion created a sloppy bite-a-juicy-peach sound. Everyone cringed.

  Lisi Harrison

  Girlfriend, Eye, Confusion

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• Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Husband, Book

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -Soren

  Kathryn Lasky

  Heart, Feet, Giving

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• As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I’m a Juicy girl. “I bet you are,” he murmured.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Summer, Jeans

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.524, Dell

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• In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.

  Lauren Conrad

  School, Mean, Jeans

  "Lauren Conrad" by Dan Today, www.seventeen.com. September 29, 2007.

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• We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, War, Thinking

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

  Jim Butcher

  Long, Secret, Stories

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.647, Penguin

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• Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

  Dean Koontz

  Orange, What If, Pork

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.382, Bantam

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• But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dirty, Snakes, Voice

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Hate, Guy, Genius

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Block, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Laughing, Parent

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.143, Penguin

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• Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world.

  Amy Poehler

  Passion, Creativity, Light

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sweet, Animal, Vegetables

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Giving, Intuition

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Opposites

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