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• A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Differences, Long

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Love You

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• The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

  Christopher Moore

  Doors, Dragons, Next

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• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  Adam Carolla

  Car, Guy, Hammers

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• The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

  Alain de Botton

  Philosophy, Writing, Sadness

  "Alain de Botton: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Tuna Fish, Cost

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.77, Pushkin Press

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• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Mutual Interest, Leader

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

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• Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Weekend, Boys

  David Sedaris (2010). “Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, White, Honor

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.5, Heinemann

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• He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there to convince her pull out the banana-flavored one. Although he liked his Jelly Belly's mixed up, he didn't like banana, but, since it took too much effort to pull them out himself, he generally tried to talk someone else into doing it. If that didn't work, he just ate 'em. - Kenny Traveler

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mexican, Effort, Jelly

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “Lady Be Good”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE! Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sexy, Men, Vampire

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.50, Macmillan

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• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Food, Vegetables, Tuesday

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

  T. H. White

  Destiny, Men, People

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Mutants, Freak

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.298, Hachette UK

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• Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use. This is one of his death traps.

  Suzanne Collins

  Blow, Use, Gale

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• I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.

  Janet Evanovich

  Cutting, Want, Said

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Sizzling Sixteen”, p.299, Macmillan

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• You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

  Ian Fleming

  America, Together, Laconic

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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• Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don’t stop a bomb or you’ll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I’m killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Wise, Baby, Sleep

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.189, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

  Charles Stross

  Years, One Time

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.5, Macmillan

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• What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly goes nuts and then you find half the neighborhood in his freezer." I gotta admit, that one stumped me for a second - but only for a second. "Which half?" I asked. "Huh?" "Which half of the neighborhood? Could you make it the people on the other side of Avenue T, because I never really liked them anyway.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Guy, Half

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• Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Allies, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

  Nancy Werlin

  Cousin, People, Doubt

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• Some things we need to talk about, but not here. I'll see you later, darling." "No you won't, nut muffin!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Needs, Muffins, Darling

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• Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut." Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell. "I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.

  Eoin Colfer

  Blue, Squids, Meat

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• So you guys fought some Daimons, huh? Wish I could. Wulf goes nuts if I even pick up a butter knife. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Guy, Wish

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.140, Macmillan

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