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  • American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

    Sex   Self   Pie  
    "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.
  • It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

    Children   Pie   Giving  
  • Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

    Dirty   Naughty   Pie  
    Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.15
  • Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

    Life   Sex   Dirty  
  • It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

    Strong   Sex   Children  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

    College   Pie   Today  
  • Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

    Dream   Giving Up   Pie  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.29, editionNEXT.com
  • We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

    Sex   Ambition   Joy  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

    Brother   Fall   Rain  
  • It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins
  • ... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

    Oil   Pie   Boxing  
    Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
  • One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

    Art   Fun   Pie  
    "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.
  • My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

    Sweet   Husband   Night  
    "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.
  • The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

    Love   Running   Business  
    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

    Wind   Pie   Magic  
  • Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

    Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

    Writing   Dust   Pie  
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