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• I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Summer, Mother, Thinking

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• Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was fine, because I'm not even thrilled about regular foods, so, you know, what do I need with like advanced digital HD wi-fi foods and whatnot? -Abby

  Christopher Moore

  Naps, Years, Class

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• I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

  George Saunders

  Grandmother, Flirting, Tables

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• The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rivers, People, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (1967). “Fahrenheit 451”, Simon & Schuster

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• I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Husband, Kids

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• If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

  Gilbert Gottfried

  War, World, Causes

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• Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

  Tim Ferriss

  Morning, Reading, Important

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• I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.

  Philip Roth

  Crazy, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Sep 01, 2013

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• I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Crow, Shadow

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Signal to Noise”, p.44, A&C Black

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• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Morning, Jobs, Years

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 03, 2006.

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• In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

  David Beckham

  People, Midnight, Spain

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

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• My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it’s great fun.

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Favorite Day, Rocks

  "Tina Fey: Funny Girl". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rd.com.

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Vegas

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• Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

  Gena Showalter

  Firsts, Breakfast, Puppy

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.136, Harlequin

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• I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Care, Proud, Rooms

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.90, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Dancing, Forever

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Way

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, People

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• I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

  Tamora Pierce

  Character, Taught, Stumps

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.81, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I've learned that by returning my calls between 11:00 a.m. and noon and 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. I can keep them short and to the point because people are either hungry and starting to think about lunch or they are trying to gear down at the end of the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Thinking, People, The End Of The Day

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Crooks

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

  Donita K. Paul

  Team, Kale, Evil

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  Alan Guth

  Matter, Range, Ultimate

  "The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins". Book by Alan Guth, 1997.

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