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154 Onions quotes by 142 unique authors
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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have…
— Lynda Resnick
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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes…
— Edwidge Danticat
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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!
— Kenneth Grahame
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and…
— Hermann Hesse
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Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,…
— Lauren Groff
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
— Bill Watterson
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When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's…
— Steven Brust
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pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,…
— Haruki Murakami
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The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under…
— Gary Soto
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it…
— Jodi Picoult
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I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in…
— Nora Roberts
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If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
— Raymond Chandler
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We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my…
— John Green
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
— Arthur Golden
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Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does…
— Robin McKinley
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I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I…
— Shel Silverstein
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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
— Eudora Welty
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I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.
— Karen Cushman
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Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.
— Terry Pratchett
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He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.
— Ray Bradbury
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This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.
— Louise Fitzhugh
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