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• He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn’t driven her away. “I’m not sure I know how to love, Louisa.” She took his hand. “Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Silly, Love You, Past

  Sabrina Jeffries (2005). “To Pleasure a Prince”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Sweet, Men

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Cutting, Levels

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

  Madeleine Albright

  Order, Law, Differences

  "Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership". Book by Madeleine Albright, January 8, 2008.

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• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  Victor Hugo

  Clouds, Elude, Lovers

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2031, eBookIt.com

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• What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.

  Charles Baxter

  Girl, Queens, Mistake

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.87, Vintage

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• His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

  J. D. Salinger

  Blue, Roulette, Arms

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

  Richard Bach

  Morning, Cookies, Reason

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Clouds, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

  Honore de Balzac

  Night, Mad, Spy

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Coffee, Nails

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• LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

  Wallace Stevens

  Autumn, Juice, Pears

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.155, Vintage

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• One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

  Jeannette Walls

  Chickens, One Thing

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Fall, Weather

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Reading, Dinner

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.291, Macmillan

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• One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, One Day, Shells

  "Passion play" by Stephen Romer, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2001.

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• Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love You, Elephants, Ivory

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• I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Tears, Relief, Wave

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Muffins, Studs

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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