Laurie Colwin - Dinner Quotes

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The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Laurie Colwin

The Lone Pilgrim sits at the dinner parties of others, partakes, savors, and goes home in a taxi alone.

Laurie Colwin

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

Laurie Colwin

When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

Laurie Colwin