Top 100 Quotes About Boiled

#1. Herbs carried in special baskets, bread wrapped in knotted, muslin cloths, thick stews soured with unripe grape juice, carrots boiled with sugar and rosewater, yoghurt hung from dripping bags, its whey dried in sheets on trays in the sun.

Jennifer Klinec

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#2. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

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#3. I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel.

Anita Diamant

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#4. Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett

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#5. Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

Ronald Schaffer

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#6. I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Ken Bruen

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#7. His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)

Raymond Chandler

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#8. The method of drinking tea at this stage was primitive in the extreme. The leaves were steamed, crushed in a mortar, made into a cake, and boiled together with rice, ginger, salt, orange peel, spices, milk, and sometimes with onions!

Okakura Kakuzo

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#9. The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)

Tobias Jones

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#10. I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

Haruki Murakami

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#11. Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world.

Nalini Singh

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#12. I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.

Agatha Christie

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#13. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

Richard Stark

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#14. ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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#15. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

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#16. 131/ Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned - plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies - are like love nips from your yippy little dog.

Kim Addonizio

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#17. When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

Uzo Aduba

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#18. I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

Martina Mcbride

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#19. Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. Its evolution may be roughly divided into three main stages: the Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea.

Okakura Kakuzo

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#20. It was what his mother would have done in the circumstances. Boiled some fresh water, warmed the pot and counted out the spoonfuls of tea. Setting domestic order against the chaos, in the hope of winning some temporary reprieve from the vale of tears.

Clive Barker

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#21. Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."

David Letterman

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#22. Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Toni Morrison

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#23. I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

Michelle Rodriguez

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#24. This modern interpretation of Machiavelli's landmark work is perhaps more useful for the modern reader than the original text. His dense ideas have been boiled down to their essence and presented in language that can be easily grasped by the modern mind.

Brandon Musk

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#25. In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled
they heal best left unwatched.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#26. A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Yotam Ottolenghi

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#27. I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

Yasujiro Ozu

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#28. Indian nationalists and the government seem to believe that they can fortify their idea of a resurgent India with a combination of bullying and Boeing airplanes. But they don't understand the subversive strength of warm boiled eggs.

Arundhati Roy

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#29. When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

Annie Proulx

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#30. She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it

Raymond Chandler

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#31. A hard-boiled redhead sang a hard-boiled song in a voice that could have been used to split firewood (Guns at Cyrano's)

Raymond Chandler

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#32. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?

Walter Kaylin

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#33. The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

Joyce Cary

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#34. My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

Jo Brand

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#35. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.

Haruki Murakami

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#36. the kettle boiled in its usual crescendo of rattling lid and rambunctious bubbles, condensation steaming up the window behind it.

Robert Galbraith

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#37. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.

William Gibson

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#38. I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.

Jamie Quatro

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#39. A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.

Mark Dacascos

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#40. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.

Judy Nichols

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#41. The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Rose Bird

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#42. I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

Suzanne Vega

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#43. I always have hard-boiled eggs with me to eat egg whites for protein. Even when I travel, I bring eggs with me so I don't eat the plane food. Yes, I'm the person you do not want to sit next to with hard-boiled eggs.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

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#44. Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking. Even his name is plain boiled: John. Maybe because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk.

Gish Jen

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#45. It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international dope smuggling, then we could move next door to Donna Reed.

Walter Mosley

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#46. I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Andre Dubus

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#47. A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Samuel Johnson

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#48. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Daniel Woodrell

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#49. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

Dana Stabenow

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#50. I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

Ana Ortiz

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#51. Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman's trapdoor.

Fennel Hudson

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#52. The music gushed from the loudspeaker in a swirl of shadowed melody. Since Vienna died, all waltzes are shadowed. (I'll be waiting)

Raymond Chandler

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#53. I broke open a boiled peanut and popped the nut in my mouth.

Alessandra Torre

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#54. There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft ...

Clement Freud

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#55. And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#56. She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

Lawrence Block

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#57. One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

William Alcott

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#58. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood

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#59. When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond.

John Steinbeck

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#60. Tougher'n a boiled owl.

Stephen King

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#61. And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Jack Kerouac

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#62. Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Benjamin Franklin

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#63. I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Ilka Chase

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#64. Bad taste
creates many more millionaires than good taste. It finally
boiled down to a matter of who got the most votes. In the
land of the moles a mole was king

Charles Bukowski

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#65. The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

Nathan Myhrvold

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#66. Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter.

Liao Yiwu

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#67. The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing - how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.

Brad Thor

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#68. In the December rain, the vicarage was especially damp and soggy, with an aura of boiled eggs and old books - a perfect setting for our encounter: dark, brooding, and simply reeking of secrets and tales told in an earlier time. Cynthia,

Alan Bradley

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#69. Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Maya Angelou

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#70. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.

Rex Stout

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#71. He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this.
On the other hand ... boiled meat!

Julia Quinn

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#72. If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

Adam Hamilton

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#73. If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.

Stephenie Meyer

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#74. Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod.

Anthony Bourdain

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#75. When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the room, her grandmother reproached her.
Not that water. Give her the boiled water. She's not made to survive here.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#76. I escape to my bedroom and feed my pet eels some chopped boiled eggs. Aphrodite and Adonis perform a graceful dance, entwining their bodies, capturing the food as it floats down like they're lovers catching snowflakes on their tongues.

A.G. Howard

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#77. Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

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#78. Eugene Peterson once wrote that before we can love our enemies, we have to pray our hatred. In these psalms - which are more frequent than the psalms of orientation - Israel vented and boiled over at God, apparently believing he was secure enough to be able to take it.

John Ortberg

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#79. Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?

William Lindsay Gresham

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#80. Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.

Jonathan Latimer

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#81. To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

Saadi

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#82. Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

Tanya Luhrmann

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#83. I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

Alice Childress

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#84. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

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#85. Six minutes isn't sex," I hear him
saying as my eyes crash shut. "Six
minutes is a boiled egg.

Sophie Kinsella

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#86. Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.

Patrick McGrath

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#87. Chance is life's only certainty.

Mickey Wyte

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#88. The decline of violence may owe something to an expansion of empathy, but it also owes much to harder-boiled faculties like prudence, reason, fairness, self-control, norms and taboos, and conceptions of human rights. This

Steven Pinker

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#89. Boiled food is life,' Levi-Strauss writes, 'roast food death.' He reports finding countless examples in the world's folklore of 'cauldrons of immortality,' but not a single example of a 'spit of immortality.

Michael Pollan

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#90. That gun of yours tickles me where I don't like to be tickled," she said.

Jonathan Latimer

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#91. A dark woman with a sharp nose opened her mouth to yell and no sound came from her. There was the instant when nobody makes a sound, when it almost seems as if there will never again be any sound - after the sound of a gun. (Guns at Cyrano's)

Raymond Chandler

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#92. A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Leigh Brackett

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#93. Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Haruki Murakami

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#94. Just what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg, and Thou.

Margaret Atwood

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#95. My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day.

John Gimlette

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#96. A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

John Irving

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#97. Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.

Murder in the Dog Park

Jill Yesko

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#98. The proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

Pearl S. Buck

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#99. A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

Mason Cooley

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#100. Lava oozed up from the centre of the crater like blood from a wound. As the flaming lava touched the water it hissed and groaned. She feared she would be boiled alive.

Alison Cooklin

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