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  •    What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutelyset, ingeniousmachinefor turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

    - Karen, Baroness pseudonym Isak Dinesen Blixen
      Seven Gothic Tales,'The Dreamers'.

  • Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      Ulysses.

  • The most beautiful sight in orbit†is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals whichgo out almost ina hemisphere† It'sreally a spectacular sight.

    - Russell Schweikart
    The NextWhole Earth Catalog.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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