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• New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

  Mark Twain

  Food, New Orleans, Criminals

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• Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

  Charles Dickens

  Giving, Joy, Cry

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.672, Xist Publishing

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• The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

  Roald Dahl

  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Poetry Is

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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• I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Eating, Cattle, Delicious Food

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• Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hurt, Would Be, Cruelty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3686, e-artnow

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• I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Morning, Men, Apples

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2979, Delphi Classics

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• Writing is a delicious agony.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Writing, Agony

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• I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Government, Years

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• In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Views, Nineteen

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.

  Laurie R. King

  Sweet, Children, Home

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• The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

  Aleister Crowley

  Spring, Healthy, Earth

  Aleister Crowley (1922). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”

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• I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

  Homer

  Sleep, Profound, Counterfeit

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Pain, Dirty

  Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books

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• Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

  John Lydon

  Food, Meat, Murder

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

  Jack Black

  Rocks, Meals, Hungry

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jul 30, 2013

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• I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Years, Faithful

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• Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Thinking, People, Cooking

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• 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

  Salma Hayek

  Dream, Baby, Hero

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• I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

  Bear Grylls

  Art, Healthy, Love Making

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