"We traveled for two weeks with a pickled…" — Sara Gruen
"We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo."
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77 Quotes by Sara Gruen
Sara Gruen has 77 quotes on this site.
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am…
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It…
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Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being…
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I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical…
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So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing…
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
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... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or…
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I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
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I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three…
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I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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More Hippo Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.
— Roger Caras
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'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't…
— Josemaria Escriva
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I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
— Teju Cole
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I'm not fighting with myself. Oh, my God. That's how I am. You know, the story of the hippo? The…
— Marat Safin
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Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your…
— Thom Yorke
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African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt…
— Jared Diamond
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Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
— George Ayittey
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You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
— Joseph Conrad
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We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just…
— Rick Riordan
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem…
— Laura Mvula
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The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike…
— Derek Jarman
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by…
— Zahi Hawass
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