Freeman Patterson
Photographer
"There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup."
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Soup
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Harville Hendrix
Author
"Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold."
Patti Smith
Musician
"Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?"
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Love is dope, not chicken soup."
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"Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!"
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"Soup is cuisines kindest course"
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"Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one."
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"The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?"
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"This soup tastes like windows"
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"To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife."
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"Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!"
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"Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added."
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"Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife."
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"Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap."
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"Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup."
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"Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended."
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"Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."
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"There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas."
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"The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place."
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"I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much."
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"The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms."
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"I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends."
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"I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it."
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"An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier."
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