Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"The proof of the pudding is the eating."
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Pudding
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Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"The proof is in the pudding."
Alexander Smith
Poet
"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding."
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"I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish."
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"I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on."
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"Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening."
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"Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding"
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"An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable."
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"No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now."
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"I hope there's pudding!"
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