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«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»

Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: at a time, come off, layer, layered, off, off and on, one at a time, onion, Onions, on and off, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, peel off, sometimes, take time off, The Onion, time off, weep

«Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.»

Author: Edward Abbey (Writer) | About: Society | Keywords: floats, layer, layered, once in a while, scum, stew, stewed, stewing, stir

«Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it»

Author: James Gibbons Huneker | About: Life | Keywords: layer, onion, Onions, peel, peeled, peeling, peels, peel of, peel off

«The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.»

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville (Historian, Political scientist) | About: America and Americans, Aristocracy, Democracy | Keywords: American elder, aristocratic, breaking, colours, covered, democratic, from time to time, layer, layered, surface, surface of

«This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.»

Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: equipped, equipping, layer, layered, peasants, run by, There There

«The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.»

Author: Chuck Palahniuk (Journalist, Novelist, Satirist) | Keywords: acid, acids, blow, blow up, Bridges, building, dynamite, explosives, gelatin, glycerin, layer, layered, mix, nitrate, nitric, nitric acid, sawdust, skim, skimming, soap, soaps, sodium, sodium nitrate

«My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Comfort | Keywords: do no, layer, spoil

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