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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”
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“Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!”
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“If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my childish needs but who, the day after the quarrel, for example would offer me a flower accompanied by a sweet note That's kind of guy I need.”
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“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
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“I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.”
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“If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.”
Source : "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012. 
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“I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.”
Source : "The Joan Van Ark Exclusive Interview". Interview with Knots Landing Fan, www.knotslanding.net. June 21, 2018.
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“Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.”
Source : Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult
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“...the first sign of civilization is always trash.”
