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• Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Insane, Looks, Decoration

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.22, Bantam Classics

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• There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.

  Desmond Morris

  Hair, Self, Two

  The Naked Ape introduction (1967)

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• "Monkey bars," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and started swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Way, Tiny

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Coffee, Glasses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child." "He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Boys, Blood

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• I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
  I consider it a real physical act.
  When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
  I move like a monkey.
  I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.

  Patti Smith

  Crazy, Real, Moving

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• Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

  Megan McCafferty

  Doing What You Love, Sand, Your Future

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.94, Broadway Books

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• Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

  Don DeLillo

  Blood, Shoes, Lunch

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Buddhist, Swings, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey.

  Charles Barkley

  Sex, Wife, Boss

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• Stop the nurse like the monkey.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nurse

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.128, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Age, Abstract Painting, Negative

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• Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

  Jean Webster

  Mother, Father, Hair

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Numbers, Infinite, Program

  Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation, 1995.

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• Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

  Shoitsu Omatsu

  Life, Moon, Night

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• When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

  Jerry Lewis

  Men, Would Be, Needs

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• The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.

  Midori Snyder

  Girl, Unique, Men

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• Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Vegetables, Differences

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1851). “The Way to Live Well: And to be Well While We Live, Containing Directions for Choosing and Preparing Food in Regard to Health, Economy, and Taste”, p.19

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

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

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• The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Weakness, Tails

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

  Andrew Davidson

  Believe, Emotional, Would Be

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.344, Canongate Books

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• Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.

  Mark Waid

  Artist, Suffering, Relax

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• Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Children, Love Is

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