He could not understand
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit – like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes! Gabriela Isler
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. Erica Jong
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Eoin Colfer
I look at you and wham, I’m head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel. Elvis Presley
Honduras was the original ‘banana republic,’ and its poverty remains extreme. Elliott Abrams
I hate banana bread. It’s too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. Elizabeth Berg
People ask me how I stay thin, and I’m like, ‘When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.’ Elizabeth Banks
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march. Elbert Hubbard
I always say, ‘If you can’t give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don’t have the comic slide over it.’ Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there’s a reason for all the comedy. Elaine Stritch