"When you taste honey, remember gall."
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"Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes."
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"He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings."
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"Honey, I forgot to duck"
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"Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey."
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"Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey"
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"Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better."
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"The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?"
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"Money honey, if you want to get along with me."
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"I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life."
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"For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar."
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"We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?"
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"Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book."
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"She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread."
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"When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back."
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"Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible."
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"Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?"
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"The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey."
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"It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it."
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"Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey."
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