Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."
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Eggplant
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant."
Jordan Sonnenblick
Author
"Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles."
Jeff Smith
Chef
"How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand."
Candy Crowley
Journalist
"I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those."
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