"You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it."
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"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience."
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"There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
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"This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine."
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"There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors."
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"Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all."
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"A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator."
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"The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes."
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"I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious and responsibly sourced beans."
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"I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors."
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"Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit."
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"In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'"
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"My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader."
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"The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt."
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"I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you."
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"If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him."
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"I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse."
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"I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!"
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"Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please."
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"Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor."
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