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Neil Gaiman Author
Green

"Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all."

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John Keats Poet
Green

"Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines."

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Carson McCullers Novelist
Green

"I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?"

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
Green

"If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover."

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Joseph Brodsky Poet, Essayist
Green

"The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
Green

"Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible."

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
Green

"The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Green

"My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Green

"When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot."

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