"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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"If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup."
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"I hated the soup and felt little for the can."
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"I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish."
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"...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that."
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"I would love to do something like 'Tosh.0,' where I host Internet clips. I did host 'Talk Soup,' which is similar. I love doing that, making fun of video clips on the Internet."
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"We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated."
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"Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup.""
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"Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out."
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"The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around."
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap"
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"Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945."
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"I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup."
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