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• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  Ezra Miller

  Running, Personality, Return

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• Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

  John Lydon

  Birthday, Kids, Cake

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

  John Lydon

  Wings, Wife, Doe

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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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• Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

  Jean Genet

  Suicide, Suicidal, Fascination

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  Lady Gaga

  Father, Gains, Pounds

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• How delicious is pleasure after torment!

  Pierre Corneille

  Pleasure, Torment

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• The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

  Christopher Columbus

  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Christopher Columbus (2012). “First Voyage to America: From the Log of the "Santa Maria"”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Healthy

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• My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Katy Perry: The press is no friend to marriage". www.today.com. May 4, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  Alan Rickman

  Girlfriend, Morning, Block

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• The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

  Francois Rabelais

  Wine, Oil, Laughing

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• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Latin, Up Early, America

  "Your Interview: Anthony Bourdain". CBC News.ca reader questions, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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