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Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali / Painter
Artist
Enemy
Surrealism
Devour
Enemies
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All revolutions devour their own children.
Ernst Rohm /
Politics
Children
Revolution
Revolutions
Devour
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Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
Thomas Nashe / Playwright
Beauty
Flower
Wrinkles
Will
Devour
Which
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There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Frantz Fanon / Psychiatrist
Science
Method
Devour
Methods
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I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
Yuvraj Singh / Cricketer
Buff
Great I Am Am
Devour
Great Movie
Regularly
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Feeding
World Will Children
Devour
World Children Will
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I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.
Emma Forrest / Journalist
Biographies
Devour
Marilyn
Natalie
Wood
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If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
Asne Seierstad / Freelance Writer
Ifs
Reality
Devour
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
Alison Tyler /
Genre
Labels
Pay Attention
Devour
Longest
Longest Time
Refused
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We love food. After our studio session, we devour dal makhani, butter chicken, and butter naan.
Armaan Malik /
Session
Love Food Chicken
Butter
Chicken
Devour
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I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
Jane Velez-Mitchell / Journalist
Animal
Rotting
Squash
Devour
Piece
Rather
Slice
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I don't like cakey things but will devour anything pickled or salty like capers, beetroot and anchovies.
Sara Cox / Presenter
Salty
Devour
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
Salman Rushdie / Novelist
England
My Favorite
Used
Authors
Favorite
Devour
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore De Balzac / Novelist
Men
Human Nature
Ideas
Passion
Ages
Nature Men Man
Cure
Devour
Passions
Perhaps
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I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.
Hasan Minhaj / Actor
Cookies
Chip
Devour
Seriously
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I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.
Sebastian Maniscalco /
Cousin
Stand Up Comedy
Basement
Cable
Comedians
Devour
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I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.
Adam Rayner / Actor
Naturally
Devour
Huge Amounts
Inclined
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Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.
Jenna Mccarthy / Author
Everyday
Giving
Names
Devour
Fascinate
Scientific
Studies
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I am not a gym person, so I do walk a lot. I find gym is incredibly boring. Other thing I do is to devour books because I feel we need to feed our mind as well.
Twinkle Khanna /
Gym
Feed
Devour
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana / Philosopher
Absent
Eating
Embrace
Mean
Nasty
Recognition
Devour
Possess
Salutation
We Cannot
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I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
Amanda Donohoe / Film Actress
Boulevard
Favourite
Hollywood Movies
Sunset
Absolute
Davis
Awful Lot
Bette
Devour
Joan
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Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I'll devour it.
Jennifer Egan / Novelist
Appetite
Hungry
Devour
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell / Philosopher
Death
Time
Doomed
Fate
Greater
Slave
Worship
Devour
Finds
Thoughts
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A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Destructive
Indispensable
Our Time
Unproductive
Vain
Devour
Net
Pursuits
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In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.
Louise Wilson / Professor
Absorb
Arrive
Devour
Magazine
Monthly
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I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
Virginia Henley /
History Books
Irresistible
Magnificent
Devour
George
Macdonald
Thomas
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I've always been drawn to love stories. Growing up, I would devour films like 'Moonstruck,' 'Ghost,' 'Love and Basketball,' and 'Love, Jones,' replacing the lovers in my imagination with two men.
Wilson Cruz /
Ghost
Moonstruck
Devour
Drawn
Love Stories
Replacing
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When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
Alexa Von Tobel / Author
Dinner
Tasks
Devour
Finish
Lay
Shower
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What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
James P. Hoffa / Attorney
American Economy
Country
Economy
Global Economy
Robust
Seems
Trends
Unions
Devour
Global
Standard
Somehow
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Television does devour you because you have all sorts of responsibilities, and I really needed to renew myself. I think I owed it to myself. So I honored myself and quit. I think that's a wonderful way to put it.
Charlotte Rae / Actress
Honored
Devour
Owed
Quit
Renew
Responsibilities
Wonderful Way
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I start my day with a hot water and lemon routine. I meditate. And I take my problems lightly, like my mother always said: treat them like helium balloons and let them go. I devour a lot of books to feed my mind.
Twinkle Khanna /
Balloons
Helium
Hot Water
Mother
Routine
Said
Water
Books
Feed
Devour
Lemon
Lightly
Meditate
Problems
Start
Treat
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The rest of the world may devour Japanese hardware - from Honda Civics to Sony Walkmans - but Japanese software, such as books, movies and recordings, has had little impact outside Japan. The exception is video games.
David Sheff / Author
Exception
Games
Hardware
Honda
Impact
Japan
Software
Video
Devour
Recordings
Video Games
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I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.
Edward Hirsch / Poet
Intense
Maker
Devour
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Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
Ellen G. White / Author
Faith
Christ
Prayer
Preparing
Roaring
Seeking
Sober
Steadfast
Adversary
Coming
Devour
Watch
Lion
Resist
Unto
Whom
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Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Mitch Daniels / Former Governor Of Indiana
Government
Advisory
Boards
Committees
Contribution
Growth
Real
Weed
Time Good Money
Choking
Devour
Good Government
Hundreds
Weeds
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini /
Famous
Beach
Dainty
Deserted
Dishes
Fisherman
Garlic
Gross
Octopus
Oil
Olive Oil
Pleasure
Tomatoes
Eat
Chefs
Composed
Devour
Fried
Mostly
Olive
Peasant
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet / Playwright
Artist
Important
Tragic
Wish
Absorb
Devour
Experienced
Product
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Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Army
Dublin
Fades
Harsh
Separation
Sight
Beautifully
Buildings
Devour
Houses
Park
Row
Whereas
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People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
Lisa Jewell / Author
Book
Copies
Crap
Hours
Lit
Might
Prize
Chick
Stay
Read
Devour
Early
Sell
People Say
Though
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Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Austria
Brazil
Costa Rica
Denmark
Finland
Hungry
Lions
Sweden
Ban
Wild
Devour
Grab
Restrict
Wild Animals
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein / Sculptor
Imagination
Drawing
Feeding
Hands
Ordinary
Reading
Thick
Great World Me
Corner
Devour
Drew
Great Deal
Hugo
Interests
Les
Les Miserables
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I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
Junot Diaz / Writer
Dream
New York
Destroyed
Growing Up
Light
Manhattan
Neighborhood
New York City
Rolling
Shadow
Wall
Call
City
Devour
Dr
Group
Reagan
Regime
York
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I remember looking at my iTunes and was like, 'I haven't listened to an album in about three months.' What happened? I was once an 18-year-old kid who would just devour everything and want to know everything about every member of every band I liked. It became this thing where I hated the idea of music, and I didn't know if I wanted to make music.
James Righton /
Itunes
Devour
Listened
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