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I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.