I've also always been fascinated by weddings... those surreal performances where the audience plays an integral part -- the joy, the sadness, the passion... all unfolding firstly in a house where God is served and ultimately in a house where beer is served... the knife inserted ritually into the virginal white cake to reveal the dark fruity interior... that ugly pagan concept of the father handing over his daughter to her new master... the mothers crying because they're losing a daughter, the page boys crying because they have to wear such stupid clothes... those embarrassing speeches and drunken uncles on the dance floor...
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In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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When placed in God's hands, life is like a chocolate cake: Take something bitter, something dry, something wet, and a little bit of leaven, mix well, and let it bake someplace hot. The result is something sweet.
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Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Wierd people are like chocolate cake... some people can't handle the richness
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Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be—a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake - which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, Baker's Man
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I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
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The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
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Compromise: the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cakeThis is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake
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You know you are getting too old, when the candles cost more than the cake.
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