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Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
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murder
family
chilling
dinner
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Sue Grafton |
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There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
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happiness
hospitality
dinner
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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"If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say."
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dessert
pea
dinner
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
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The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.
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funny
family
love
fridge
brother
lesbian
dinner
problems
conversation
random
sexuality
father
unrequited-love
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.
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breakfast
middle
daily-life
dinner
lunch
end
cooking
food
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Robert Hellenga |
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One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.
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mealtime
calories
dinner
lunch
food
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Bill Bryson |
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You want to go out to dinner sometime? Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.
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dinner
lizards
gay
dead
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Warren Ellis |
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She hadn't wanted to make plain cinnamon cookies. She'd wanted to blend in ginger and try something fun like rosewater. She'd thought about going to the market and buying fresh spring vegetables, then making a red wine risotto with the crunchy, delicious vegetables served with a perfect roasted chicken stuffed with garlic and spices.
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jenna-stevens
dinner
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Susan Mallery |
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"Waiters began to appear with tureens of soup, platters of fish and meat, and bowls of vegetables. Another with a huge gold tasting spoon hanging like a necklace at his chest showed the Count a bottle of wine, which he approved, and when opened, sniffed the cork, and then nodded so that a glass could be poured for me. He ordered the waiters to put everything on the table and retreat to the rear of the room. "I will serve her," he said. "Tell me what you would like, Mina." I opened my mouth to speak, but he put a finger to my lips. "Not that way. Tell me with your thoughts." Without looking at the food, I directed my attention by scent to the tureen of turtle soup, whose aroma I recognized from my first dinner at the asylum. "Yes, good," the Count said, ladling out a small bowlful for me. "What else?" I relished the aromas of the white fish with wine and capers, the lamb with mint sauce, and the carrots, but rejected the turnips, which I had eaten for so many years at Miss Hadley's that I had come to abhor them. My repulsion made him laugh, and he signaled for a waiter to take the bowl away."
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thoughts
likes-and-dislikes
mina-and-dracula
dinner
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Karen Essex |