| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38555 |
| QUOTATION: | An orange grown in Florida usually has a thin and tightly fitting skin, and it is also heavy with juice. Californians say that if you want to eat a Florida orange you have to get into a bathtub first. California oranges are light in weight and have thick skins that break easily and come off in hunks. The flesh inside is marvelously sweet, and the segments almost separate themselves. In Florida, it is said that you can run over a California orange with a ten-ton truck and not even wet the pavement. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John McPhee (b. 1931), U.S. author, journalist. Oranges, Farrar (1967). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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