Coca Cola Love Quotes

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The city throbbed, shimmered. Then, trying to snap himself out of it, he said, โ€œFuck Coca-Cola.โ€ โ€œYeah, Sprite for life, fuckers,โ€ I added, not knowing then what I know now: that Coca-Cola and Sprite were made by the same damn company. That no matter who you are or what you love or where you stand, it was always Coca-Cola in the end.
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Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
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American?โ€ he asked, with a pained smile. โ€œYes,โ€ Annabeth said. โ€œAnd Iโ€™d love a pizza,โ€ Percy said. The waiter looked like he was trying to swallow a euro coin. โ€œOf course you would, signor. And let me guess: a Coca-Cola? With ice?โ€ โ€œAwesome,โ€ Percy said. He didnโ€™t understand why the guy was giving him such a sour face. It wasnโ€™t like Percy had asked for a blue Coke.
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Rick Riordan (The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3))
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That no matter who you are or what you love or where you stand, it was always Coca-Cola in the end.
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Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
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no matter who you are or what you love or where you stand, it was always Coca-Cola in the end.
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Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
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Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.
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Hank Williams Jr.
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Your pain and your hurt is no matter for anyone.Now human value is just like a bottle of Coca-Cola,people are interested in you till they are enjoying sip up to their mood after that they throw you in dustbin and search another drink
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Mohammed Zaki Ansari ("Zaki's Gift Of Love")
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In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk... I have even had the awkward androgynes, the unsexed dishes of the day of the *tables d'hote* of Montmartre. Like any vulgar follower of fashion, like any member of the herd, I have made love to bony and improbably slender little girls, frightened and macabre, spiced with carbolic and peppered with chlorotic make-up. Like an imbecile, I have believed in the mouths of prey and sacrificial victims. Like a simpleton, I have believed in the large lewd eyes of a ragged heap of sickly little creatures: alcoholic and cynical shop girls and whores. The profundity of their eyes and the mystery of their mouths... the jewellers of some and the manicurists of others furnish them with *eaux de toilette*, with soaps and rouges. And Fanny the etheromaniac, rising every morning for a measured dose of cola and coca, does not put ether only on her handkerchief. It is all fakery and self-advertisement - *truquage and battage*, as their vile argot has it. Their phosphorescent rottenness, their emaciated fervour, their Lesbian blight, their shop-sign vices set up to arouse their clients, to excite the perversity of young and old men alike in the sickness of perverse tastes! All of it can sparkle and catch fire only at the hour when the gas is lit in the corridors of the music-halls and the crude nickel-plated decor of the bars. Beneath the cerise three-ply collars of the night-prowlers, as beneath the bulging silks of the cyclist, the whole seductive display of passionate pallor, of knowing depravity, of exhausted and sensual anaemia - all the charm of spicy flowers celebrated in the writings of Paul Bourget and Maurice Barres - is nothing but a role carefully learned and rehearsed a hundred times over. It is a chapter of the MANCHON DE FRANCINE read over and over again, swotted up and acted out by ingenious barnstormers, fully conscious of the squalid salacity of the male of the species, and knowledgeable in the means of starting up the broken-down engines of their customers. To think that I also have loved these maleficent and sick little beasts, these fake Primaveras, these discounted Jocondes, the whole hundred-franc stock-in-trade of Leonardos and Botticellis from the workshops of painters and the drinking-dens of aesthetes, these flowers mounted on a brass thread in Montparnasse and Levallois-Perret! And the odious and tiresome travesty - the corsetted torso slapped on top of heron's legs, painful to behold, the ugly features primed by boulevard boxes, the fake Dresden of Nina Grandiere retouched from a medicine bottle, complaining and spectral at the same time - of Mademoiselle Guilbert and her long black gloves!... Have I now had enough of the horror of this nightmare! How have I been able to tolerate it for so long? The fact is that I was then ignorant even of the nature of my sickness. It was latent in me, like a fire smouldering beneath the ashes. I have cherished it since... perhaps since early childhood, for it must always have been in me, although I did not know it!
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Jean Lorrain (Monsieur De Phocas)
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I also forgot to say that the account that is soon going to have to start -- since I can no longer withstand the pressure of the facts -- the account that soon is going to have to start is written with the sponsorship of the most popular soft drink in the world even though it's not paying me a cent, a soft drink distributed in every country. Moreover it's the same soft drink that sponsored the last earthquake in Guatemala. Even though it tastes like nail polish, Aristolino soap and chewed plastic. None of this keeps everyone from loving it with servility and subservience. Also because -- and now I'm going to say something difficult that only I understand -- because this drink which contains coca is today. It's a way for a person to be up-to-date and in the now.
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Clarice Lispector (The Hour of the Star)
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Hypothetically, then, you may be picking up in someone a certain very strange type of sadness that appears as a kind of disassociation from itself, maybe, Love-o.โ€™ โ€˜I donโ€™t know disassociation.โ€™ โ€˜Well, love, but you know the idiom โ€œnot yourselfโ€ โ€” โ€œHeโ€™s not himself today,โ€ for example,โ€™ crooking and uncrooking fingers to form quotes on either side of what she says, which Mario adores. โ€˜There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps. Dolores describes these persons as afraid of obliteration, emotional engulfment. As if something truly and thoroughly felt would have no end or bottom. Would become infinite and engulf them.โ€™ โ€˜Engulf means obliterate.โ€™ โ€˜I am saying that such persons usually have a very fragile sense of themselves as persons. As existing at all. This interpretation is โ€œexistential,โ€ Mario, which means vague and slightly flaky. But I think it may hold true in certain cases. My own father told stories of his own father, whose potato farm had been in St. Pamphile and very much larger than my fatherโ€™s. My grandfather had had a marvelous harvest one season, and he wanted to invest money. This was in the early 1920s, when there was a great deal of money to be made on upstart companies and new American products. He apparently narrowed the field to two choices โ€” Delaware-brand Punch, or an obscure sweet fizzy coffee substitute that sold out of pharmacy soda fountains and was rumored to contain smidgeons of cocaine, which was the subject of much controversy in those days. My fatherโ€™s father chose Delaware Punch, which apparently tasted like rancid cranberry juice, and the manufacturer of which folded. And then his next two potato harvests were decimated by blight, resulting in the forced sale of his farm. Coca-Cola is now Coca-Cola. My father said his father showed very little emotion or anger or sadness about this, though. That he somehow couldnโ€™t. My father said his father was frozen, and could feel emotion only when he was drunk. He would apparently get drunk four times a year, weep about his life, throw my father through the living room window, and disappear for several days, roaming the countryside of Lโ€™Islet Province, drunk and enraged.โ€™ Sheโ€™s not been looking at Mario this whole time, though Marioโ€™s been looking at her. She smiled. โ€˜My father, of course, could himself tell this story only when he was drunk. He never threw anyone through any windows. He simply sat in his chair, drinking ale and reading the newspaper, for hours, until he fell out of the chair. And then one day he fell out of the chair and didnโ€™t get up again, and that was how your maternal grandfather passed away. Iโ€™d never have gotten to go to University had he not died when I was a girl. He believed education was a waste for girls. It was a function of his era; it wasnโ€™t his fault. His inheritance to Charles and me paid for university.โ€™ Sheโ€™s been smiling pleasantly this whole time, emptying the butt from the ashtray into the wastebasket, wiping the bowlโ€™s inside with a Kleenex, straightening straight piles of folders on her desk.
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David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
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Jeff and Amy were part of this, though never in the sense that the natives were. They were not indigenous: they were outlanders, โ€˜foreigners,โ€™ distinguished by a sort of upcountry cosmopolitan glaze which permitted them to mingle but not merge. Even their drinking habits set them apart. Deltans drank only corn and Coca-Cola; gin was perfume, scotch had a burnt-stick taste. They would watch with wry expressions while Amy blended her weird concoctions, pink ladies and Collinses and whiskey sours, and those who tried one, finally persuaded, would sip and shudder and set the glass aside: โ€œThanksโ€โ€”mildly outraged, smirkingโ€”โ€œIโ€™ll stick to burrbon.
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Shelby Foote (Love in a Dry Season)
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So, uh, where should Iโ€ฆ?โ€ I told up the pizza boxes as I trail off. โ€œOh, right. Kitchen tableโ€™s fine.โ€ โ€œIโ€™ll show you!โ€ Madison announces, as if I donโ€™t know where it is, but I let her lead me there anyway. Kennedy shuts the door and follows behind us. I set the boxes on the table, and Madison doesnโ€™t hesitate, popping the top one open. She makes a face, looking horrified. โ€œGross!โ€ โ€œWhat in the world are youโ€”?โ€ Kennedy laughs as she glances at the pizza. โ€œHam and pineapple.โ€ โ€œWhy is that fruit on the pizza?โ€ Madison asks. โ€œBecause itโ€™s good,โ€ Kennedy says, snatching the top box away before opening the other one. โ€œThere, that oneโ€™s for you.โ€ Madison shrugs it off, grabbing a slice of cheese pizza, eating straight from the box. Iโ€™m gathering this is normal, since Kennedy sits down beside her to do the same. โ€œYou remembered,โ€ she says plucking a piece of pineapple off a slice of pizza and popping it in her mouth. โ€œOf course,โ€ I say, grabbing a slice of cheese from the box Madison is hoarding. โ€œPretty sure Iโ€™m scarred for life because of it. Not something I can forget.โ€ She laughs, the sound soft, as she gives me one of the most genuine smiles Iโ€™ve seen in a while. It fades as she averts her gaze, but goddamn it, it happened. โ€œYou shoulda gots the breads,โ€ Madison says, standing on her chair as she leans closer, vying for my attention like sheโ€™s afraid I might not see her. โ€œAnd the chickens!โ€ โ€œAh, didnโ€™t know you liked those,โ€ I tell her, โ€œor I wouldโ€™ve gotten them.โ€ โ€œNext time,โ€ she says, just like that, no question about it. โ€œNext time,โ€ I say. โ€œAnd soda, too,โ€ she says. โ€œNo soda,โ€ Kennedy chimes in. Madison glances at her mother before leaning even closer, damn near right up on me, whisper-shouting, โ€œSoda.โ€ โ€œIโ€™m not so sure your mom will like that,โ€ I say. โ€œItโ€™s okay,โ€ Madison says. โ€œShe tells Grandpa no soda, too, but he lets me have it.โ€ โ€œThatโ€™s because you emotionally blackmail him,โ€ Kennedy says. โ€œNuh-uh!โ€ Madison says, looking at her mother. โ€œI donโ€™t blackmail him!โ€ Kennedy scoffs. โ€œHow do you know? You donโ€™t even know what that means.โ€ โ€œSo?โ€ Madison says. โ€œI donโ€™t mail him nothing!โ€ ... โ€œYou give him those sad puppy-dog eyes,โ€ Kennedy says, grabbing Madison by the chin, squeezing her chubby cheeks. โ€œAnd you tell him youโ€™ll love him โ€˜the mostestโ€™ if he gives you some Coca-Cola to drink.โ€ โ€œ โ€˜Cuz I will,โ€ Madison says. โ€œThatโ€™s emotional blackmail.โ€ โ€œOh.โ€ Madison makes a face, turning to me when her mother lets go of her. โ€œHow โ€˜bout root beer?โ€ โ€œIโ€™m afraid not,โ€ I tell her. โ€œSorry.โ€ Madison scowls, hopping down from the table to grab a juice box from the refrigerator.
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J.M. Darhower (Ghosted)
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แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒแƒœแƒแƒคแƒแƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒกแƒ แƒ“แƒ แƒ—แƒแƒ•แƒกแƒแƒคแƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒก แƒ’แƒแƒ แƒ”แƒจแƒ” - แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒฏแƒ˜แƒœแƒกแƒ”แƒ‘แƒกแƒ แƒ“แƒ แƒ™แƒ”แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒจแƒ˜. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒšแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒช แƒ“แƒแƒ“แƒ˜แƒแƒœ แƒ™แƒ˜แƒœแƒแƒจแƒ˜ แƒ“แƒ แƒฃแƒกแƒ›แƒ”แƒœแƒ”แƒœ แƒ›แƒฃแƒกแƒ˜แƒ™แƒแƒก, แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒšแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒช แƒ“แƒแƒกแƒ“แƒ”แƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒกแƒแƒ™แƒฃแƒ—แƒแƒ  แƒ›แƒ”แƒ’แƒแƒ‘แƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒก (โ€ฆ) แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒšแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒช แƒกแƒ•แƒแƒ›แƒ”แƒœ แƒ™แƒแƒ™แƒ-แƒ™แƒแƒšแƒแƒก, แƒญแƒแƒ›แƒ”แƒœ แƒฐแƒแƒ—-แƒ“แƒแƒ’แƒ”แƒ‘แƒก, แƒ›แƒแƒ’แƒ–แƒแƒฃแƒ แƒแƒ‘แƒ”แƒœ แƒ˜แƒœแƒขแƒ”แƒ แƒœแƒ”แƒขแƒจแƒ˜ แƒ“แƒ แƒฃแƒกแƒ›แƒ”แƒœแƒ”แƒœ แƒ›แƒฃแƒกแƒ˜แƒ™แƒแƒก แƒแƒ˜แƒžแƒแƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒจแƒ˜. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒ”แƒšแƒ—แƒแƒช แƒฃแƒงแƒ•แƒแƒ แƒ— แƒ”แƒ•แƒฅแƒแƒ แƒ˜แƒกแƒขแƒ˜แƒ, แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒšแƒ”แƒ‘แƒกแƒแƒช แƒแƒ แƒช แƒ”แƒจแƒ˜แƒœแƒ˜แƒแƒ— แƒ“แƒ แƒแƒ แƒช แƒ แƒชแƒฎแƒ•แƒ”แƒœแƒ˜แƒแƒ— แƒญแƒแƒ›แƒแƒœ แƒžแƒ˜แƒชแƒ, แƒแƒœแƒแƒช แƒ“แƒแƒšแƒ˜แƒแƒœ แƒšแƒฃแƒ“แƒ˜ แƒ›แƒแƒ— แƒ›แƒ”แƒ’แƒแƒ‘แƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ—แƒแƒœ แƒ”แƒ แƒ—แƒแƒ“. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒ•แƒ˜แƒกแƒแƒช แƒฃแƒงแƒ•แƒแƒ แƒ— แƒคแƒ˜แƒšแƒ›แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒชแƒ”แƒ™แƒ•แƒ, แƒกแƒžแƒแƒ แƒขแƒ˜, แƒ—แƒ”แƒแƒขแƒ แƒ˜. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒ•แƒ˜แƒœแƒช แƒแƒ แƒ˜แƒแƒœ แƒ’แƒแƒฎแƒกแƒœแƒ˜แƒšแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒกแƒแƒชแƒ˜แƒแƒšแƒฃแƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒœแƒแƒ แƒ›แƒแƒšแƒฃแƒ แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜, แƒ›แƒฎแƒ˜แƒแƒ แƒฃแƒšแƒ˜ แƒ™แƒแƒ›แƒžแƒแƒœแƒ˜แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒ•แƒ˜แƒœแƒช แƒแƒ แƒ˜แƒแƒœ แƒแƒ› แƒกแƒแƒ›แƒงแƒแƒ แƒแƒจแƒ˜ แƒ“แƒ แƒ˜แƒชแƒ˜แƒแƒœ, แƒ แƒแƒ’แƒแƒ  แƒ˜แƒกแƒ˜แƒแƒ›แƒแƒ•แƒœแƒแƒœ แƒงแƒ•แƒ”แƒšแƒแƒ–แƒ” แƒฃแƒ™แƒ”แƒ— แƒฃแƒ’แƒฃแƒšแƒแƒ‘แƒ˜แƒกแƒ แƒ“แƒ แƒ›แƒ˜แƒฌแƒ˜แƒฃแƒ แƒแƒ‘แƒ˜แƒก แƒ’แƒแƒ แƒ”แƒจแƒ”. แƒฉแƒ•แƒ”แƒœ แƒฌแƒ›แƒ˜แƒœแƒ“แƒแƒœแƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜ แƒ’แƒ•แƒญแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒโ€. แƒ แƒแƒ›แƒ˜แƒก แƒžแƒแƒžแƒ˜ แƒคแƒ แƒแƒœแƒฉแƒ˜แƒกแƒ™แƒ”, แƒแƒฎแƒแƒšแƒ’แƒแƒ–แƒ แƒ“แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜แƒก แƒ›แƒกแƒแƒคแƒšแƒ˜แƒ แƒ“แƒฆแƒ” 2013 "We need saints without cassocks, without veils - we need saints with jeans and tennis shoes. We need saints that go to the movies that listen to music, that hang out with their friends (...) We need saints that drink Coca-Cola, that eat hot dogs, that surf the internet and that listen to their iPods. We need saints that love the Eucharist, that are not afraid or embarrassed to eat a pizza or drink a beer with their friends. We need saints who love the movies, dance, sports, theatre. We need saints that are open, sociable, normal, happy companions. We need saints who are in this world and who know how to enjoy the best in this world without being callous or mundane. We need saintsโ€. Pope Francis, 2013
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David Tinikashvili (แƒ›แƒกแƒแƒคแƒšแƒ˜แƒ แƒ แƒ”แƒšแƒ˜แƒ’แƒ˜แƒ”แƒ‘แƒ˜)
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The halo effect depends not on the ingredients themselves but on the eater, or more specifically, on the degree of control the eater has over his or her food. Before the 1800s, sugar itself separated rich from poor; now it is your state of mind while enjoying the sugar that separates the haves from the have-nots. For instance, Drewnowskiโ€™s absolute favorite dessert is a slice of coconut cream pieโ€”not just any coconut cream pie, but the signature dessert by Seattleโ€™s resident celebrity chef Tom Douglas. (โ€œYou have to share it,โ€ he warns. โ€œThereโ€™s a lot of sugar and cream in it, but itโ€™s delicious.โ€) So he and his dinner companion savor the slice of pie, which happens to cost $8 (or the price of about two bags of Chips Ahoy! cookies). Nice sweets with a big price tag are meant to be appreciated like that. You eat a little at a time. Sensory-specific satiety, as we saw earlier, may compel you to eat more than you need, but chances are, if youโ€™re making at least middle-class wages, youโ€™re not wolfing it down to ease hunger. Nor are you eating sweets all the time. Sometimes you might have fruit; sometimes you might have a cappuccino. If youโ€™re making at least middle-class wages, then you have the freedom and the money to decide how much to eat and when to eat it. Thatโ€™s how even down-market foods can sometimes be elite in the right context. Lollipops at fashion shows and Coca-Cola-infused sauces in trendy restaurants arenโ€™t demonized because the people who consume such items in those contexts have the power to choose something else entirely if they feel like it.
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Joanne Chen (The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats)
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Don't date just to escape the "Im Single" status. Don't marry just to tick off a checklist. Life is NOT a grocery list. Find yourself first, then find someone who can accommodate the talents, the vision and the ambitions in your heart, someone who can be the enabler for you to emerge into your greatness. Find someone who believes in you, supports and encourages you even when the world laughs at your guts. But first, find yourself because it is far more important to be the right person than it is to date/marry the right person. Become a person of value. Don't go looking for a good woman until you've become a good man. And ladies, don't go looking for a good man till you've become a good woman. If you want a loving, honest, faithful, supportive and rich partner; first become what you are looking for. You must meet the requirements of your own requirements! Leaders, vision bearers and dream chasers look for character, commitment, vision, grit, faith, etc...but ordinary people look for coca-cola bottle shape kinder girl, a six pack kinder guy and a heavy bank balance...but dear men, it's her character that will raise your children not her beauty. It is character that makes a great wife. Dear ladies, It is character that makes a great Dad/husband not a car or a big wallet. Take note good people, you don't need to die to go to hell...misalignment of core values/purpose In your relationship/marriage is the beginning of your own hell right here on earth. In my humble opinion, misalignment of core values is worst than cheating. Yes, both are evil but cheating is a lesser evil compared to misalignment of core values. Trust me, you don't want to test this theory, you may not come out alive. So, leave the girl/boy down the road to a boy/girl down the road. Leave slay queens to slay kings. Leave party queens to party kings. Leave nyaope boys to nyaope girls, drug addicts to drug addicts, leave weed girls to weed boys, playboys to playgirls..,,AND legacy builders to legacy builders!
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Nicky Verd
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She loved to experiment with her sauces. Everything started with sugar and salt. There was often vinegar and onions and tomatoes involved, but then she tried all kinds of ideas. A touch of bourbon, maybe. Stone-ground mustard. Chiles in adobo. Crazy stuff like a vanilla bean from Madagascar, bitter chocolate, Coca-Cola, coffee, star anise, tamarind, or Florida calamondins. She made careful recipe notes and kept track of the most popular flavors, adding her recipes to the most valuable treasure her mother had left behind---a massive file of clipped and handwritten recipes.
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Susan Wiggs (Sugar and Salt (Bella Vista Chronicles, #4))
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Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fired chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.
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Hank Williams Jr.
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From the Bridgeโ€ by Captain Hank Bracker Behind โ€œThe Exciting Story of Cubaโ€ It was on a rainy evening in January of 2013, after Captain Hank and his wife Ursula returned by ship from a cruise in the Mediterranean, that Captain Hank was pondering on how to market his book, Seawater One. Some years prior he had published the book โ€œSuppressed I Rise.โ€ But lacking a good marketing plan the book floundered. Locally it was well received and the newspapers gave it great reviews, but Ursula was battling allergies and, unfortunately, the timing was off, as was the economy. Captain Hank has the ability to see sunshine when itโ€™s raining and heโ€™s not one easily deterred. Perhaps the timing was off for a novel or a textbook, like the Scramble Book he wrote years before computers made the scene. The history of West Africa was an option, however such a book would have limited public interest and besides, he had written a section regarding this topic for the second Seawater book. No, what he was embarking on would have to be steeped in history and be intertwined with true-life adventures that people could identify with. Out of the blue, his friend Jorge suggested that he write about Cuba. โ€œYou were there prior to the Revolution when Fidel Castro was in jail,โ€ he ventured. Laughing, Captain Hank told a story of Mardi Gras in Havana. โ€œHalf of the Miami Police Department was there and the Coca-Cola cost more than the rum. Havana was one hell of a place!โ€ Hank said. โ€œIโ€™ll tell you what I could do. I could write a pamphlet about the history of the island. It doesnโ€™t have to be very longโ€ฆ 25 to 30 pages would do it.โ€ His idea was to test the waters for public interest and then later add it to his book Seawater One. Writing is a passion surpassed only by his love for telling stories. It is true that Captain Hank had visited Cuba prior to the Revolution, but back then he was interested more in the beauty of the Latino girls than the history or politics of the country. โ€œYou donโ€™t have to be Greek to appreciate Greek history,โ€ Hank once said. โ€œHistory is not owned solely by historians. It is a part of everyoneโ€™s heritage.โ€ And so it was that he started to write about Cuba. When asked about why he wasnโ€™t footnoting his work, he replied that the pamphlet, which grew into a book over 600 pages long, was a book for the people. โ€œIโ€™m not writing this to be a history book or an academic paper. Iโ€™m writing this book, so that by knowing Cubaโ€™s past, people would understand itโ€™s present.โ€ He added that unless you lived it, you got it from somewhere else anyway, and footnoting just identifies where it came from. Aside from having been a shipโ€™s captain and harbor pilot, Captain Hank was a high school math and science teacher and was once awarded the status of โ€œTeacher of the Monthโ€ by the Connecticut State Board of Education. He has done extensive graduate work, was a union leader and the attendance officer at a vocational technical school. He was also an officer in the Naval Reserve and an officer in the U.S. Army for a total of over 40 years. He once said that โ€œLife is to be lived,โ€ and he certainly has. Active with Military Intelligence he returned to Europe, and when I asked what he did there, he jokingly said that if he had told me he would have to kill me. The Exciting Story of Cuba has the exhilaration of a novel. It is packed full of interesting details and, with the normalizing of the United States and Cuba, it belongs on everyoneโ€™s bookshelf, or at least in the bathroom if thatโ€™s where you do your reading. Captain Hank is not someone you can hold down and after having read a Proof Copy I know that it will be universally received as the book to go to, if you want to know anything about Cuba! Excerpts from a conversation with Chief Warrant Officer Peter Rommel, USA Retired, Military Intelligence Corps, Winter of 2014.
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Hank Bracker (The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past)
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I made many economies in my youth and they were fairly painless because the young do not particularly care for luxury. They have other interests than spending and can make love satisfactorily on a Coca-Cola, a drink which is nauseating in age. They have little idea of real pleasure: even their love-making is apt to be hurried and incomplete. Luckily in middle age pleasure begins, pleasure in love, in wine, in food. Only the taste for poetry flags a little, but I would have always gladly lost my taste for the sonnets of Wordsworth [...] if I could have bettered my palate for wine. Love-making too provides as a rule more prolonged and varied pleasure after forty-five. Aretino is not a writer for the young.
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Graham Greene (Travels with My Aunt)
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Heeding Myrnaโ€™s counsel with the eager assistance of various young men, one of the simple lovelies suffered a nervous breakdown; the other attempted unsuccessfully to slash her wrists with a broken Coca-Cola bottle. Myrnaโ€™s explanation was that the girls had been too reactionary to begin with, and with renewed vigor, she preached sex in every classroom and pizza parlor, almost getting herself raped by a janitor in the Social Studies building.
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John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces)
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there is no context in which my ego, if not fastidiously monitored, wonโ€™t run amok. It is extremely difficult to put aside a lifetimeโ€™s conditioning. The only way I can stay drug free is one day at a time, with vigilance, humility, and support. My tendency is still, after eleven years, to drift towards oblivion. My appetite for attention too can only be positively directed with great care. Look out your window, turn on your TV, see which values are being promoted, which aspects of humanity are being celebrated. The alarm bells of fear and desire are everywhere; these powerful primal tools, designed to aid survival in a world unrecognizable to modern civilized humans, are relentlessly jangled. A facet of our unevolved natureโ€”comparable to that which still craves sugar and fat, a relic from the days when it was scarceโ€”is being pricked and jabbed and buzzed every time we see a billboard bikini or a Coca-Cola floozy. Our saber-toothed terrors and mammoth anxieties are being dragged up and strung out by shrill transmissions about immigrants, junkies, pit bulls, and cancer. Once I sat in that kundalini class, in white robes, cross-legged, with pan-piped serenity caressing the congregation as we meditated as one, and all I was really thinking about was if I should buy a gun. I was in America after all and you are allowed a gun. Have you ever held a Glock 38? It feels so cool in your hand. Even the word makes you feel tough. โ€œGlock.โ€ Tupac had one; Eminem loves themโ€”I want one. Never mind all this hippie-dippie, yinโ€“yang, Ramadan, green-juice bullshit; I want a gat, like Tupac. Of course, I think things like that; the messages that are broadcast on that frequency move fast and stick hard. Look at the state of the world. I didnโ€™t buy one, though; my mum had to remind me that Iโ€™m a peace-loving lad and that if I had a gun in the house, the person most at risk would be me. The kundalini techniques worked: They advanced my mind, they tuned me in. How much more powerful these techniques would be if supported by a culture of spiritual evolution, not one of self-fortification.
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Russell Brand (Revolution)
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Always, from the first time he went there to see Eros and the lights, that circus have a magnet for him, that circus represent life, that circus is beginning and the ending of the world. Every time he go there, he have the same feeling like when he see it the first night, drink coca-cola, any time is guinness time, bovril and the fireworks, a million flashing lights, gay laughter, the wide doors of theatres, the huge posters, everready batteries, rich people going into tall hotels, people going to the theatre, people sitting and standing and walking and talking and laughing and buses and cars and Galahad Esquire, in all this, standing there in the big city, in London. Oh Lord.
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Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners)
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My love is not the Coca-Cola when you want and drink.
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Ehsan Sehgal
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My love is not Coca-Cola when you want and drink.
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Ehsan Sehgal
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I love coffee, cheesecake, and Coca-Cola. I've tried all the fad diets, dragged my ass to the gym, decided to only eat salad, and failed at them all. What can I say? Cheesecake is delicious and water tastes like spit. Bring on the sugar and calories, because I've accepted that this is me.
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Jewels Arthur (Rose (Jewels Cafe: Rose #1))