"The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard."
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"I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it."
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"I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working."
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"It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well."
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"An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor."
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"Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee."
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"The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day."
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"Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery."
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"The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak."
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"Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink..."
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"First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode."
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"I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee."
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"Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility."
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"Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!"
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"Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place."
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"Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!"
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"Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly."
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"The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse."
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"Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again."
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"English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve."
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