Laurie Colwin - House Quotes

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In the days when my friends were happily traveling to Bolivia and Nepal, I was ashamed to admit that what I liked best was hanging around the house.

Laurie Colwin

Holly conducted herself like a bird of paradise that had flown through the window of a house in Des Moines and settled down; she explained very little.

Laurie Colwin

In foreign countries I am drawn into grocery shops, supermarkets and kitchen supply houses. I explain this by reminding my friends that, as I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology, it is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

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I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

Laurie Colwin