"Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an……" — Maureen Johnson
"Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science."
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170 Quotes by Maureen Johnson
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English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
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I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
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Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be…
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But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to…
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Having your back scratched is not the only reason to be married, but it is a good one, especially for…
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Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry…
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A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.
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Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it…
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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked…
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Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really.…
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My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
— Graydon Carter
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
— Marc Anthony
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar.…
— Warren Buffett
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless.…
— James E. Faust
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