Eggplant Quotes

• Dudo que se pueda suprimir la imaginación. Si realmente se erradicara en un niño, crecería como una berenjena.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.42, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

  Roger Verge

  Eye, Vegetables, Skins

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• When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

  Mario Batali

  Cutting, Soul, Three

  "Making a Meal with Mario Batali". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 15, 2005.

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• Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Food, Promise, Cholera

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

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• ¿Cómo puede la gente decir que no come berenjenas cuando a Dios le encanta el color y a los franceses el nombre? No lo entiendo.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Godly, Color

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  Laurie Colwin

  Hot And Cold, Next Day, Allies

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• El olor del estiércol, del sol sobre el follaje, del agua evaporándose, se me subió a la cabeza; dos pasos más allá, y pude contemplar el huerto encerrado entre su alto pálido de juncos: rica tierra chocolate tachonada de verde esmeralda, espumosa con el blanco de las coliflores, enjoyada con los globos púrpura de las berenjenas y la riqueza escarlata de los tomates.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Vegetables

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• I like hot dogs. I like eggplant. I like pizza and creamed corn and beer. But I don't like Arabs.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Beer, Hot

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• Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Style, Chicks, Turtlenecks

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

  Yosa Buson

  Vegetables, Water, Buckets

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• The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Black, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Squash, Backyards

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• Hasta el día de hoy no puedo ver un narciso brillante, un gladiolo orgulloso o una suave berenjena sin pensar en papá. Al igual que sus plantas y árboles, crecí como parte de su jardín.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Garden, Thinking, Tree

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). "Papá, mi padre: una celebración de los papás", Ballantine Books

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• I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.

  Candy Crowley

  Mushrooms, People, Sick

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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