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“Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.” Jack London, Martin Eden
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“one should never argue about plays or novels. Everyone has his own way of looking at things, and what may be horrible to you is, perhaps, just what I like best.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“In the highly mechanised countries, thanks to tinned food, cold storage, synthetic flavouring matters, etc., the palate is almost a dead organ.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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