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"How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?"
"She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor."
"The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go."
"His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth."
"I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result."
"Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end."
"I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity."
"For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for."
"I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time."
"The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties."
"Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off."
"be careful of monsters with teeth"
"Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen."
"How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth."
"Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I?"
"Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours."
"A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean."
"I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months."
"The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them."
"Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth."
