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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry

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"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
— Charles de Gaulle

tags: cheese, food, politics

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"I am at this moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
— John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces)

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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"Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man."
— George R.R. Martin

tags: cheese

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"Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye"
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

tags: cheese, dessert

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"Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?"
— Pamela Dean

tags: cheese

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"Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly..."
— Robert Louis Stevenson III

tags: cheese

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"A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."
— Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

tags: cheese, delicious

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"But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were.""
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: ben, cheese, christian, diet, gunn, island, louis, robert, stevenson, treasure

2 people liked it

"The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops."
— Jasper Fforde

tags: cheese

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"Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable.'"
— Chip Kidd (The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters)

tags: cheese, monkeys

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"So the timing may have been cheesy, but the kiss was one-hundred percent not cheesy. More like chocolate, actually. "
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

tags: blade, body, cheese, cheesy, chocolate, derek, kisses, love, meet, park, sharden

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