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1 " A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. "
― Rachilde , Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
2 " We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say? "
3 " The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln "
― Harold Holzer , Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
4 " And I tell her about his description because I want her to know what I now know, which is that the place where the pepper grows is not a place to be afraid of…I tell her: Mama, exile is not always the darkest corner of the earth. Sometimes it is lush and plentiful, sometimes it is full of life… "
