Peg Bracken Quotes

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Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

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Everything from television to fashion ads has made it seem wicked to cast a shadow. This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

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There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

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Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

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(Newton's Law of the Ever-level Suitcase) At the same time an object is lost, used up, given away, thrown out, or otherwise disposed of, another object of equal size and weight rushes in to fill the vacuum.

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Any restaurant featuring French cuisine and Ice-cold Grape Slush in the same window can't be trusted.

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The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

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Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

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It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

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There is hardly a problem, no matter how complicated it is, that when looked at in the right way doesn't become still more complicated.

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I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are — like a tendency toward fat knees — probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

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It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

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Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

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Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition.... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

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She was constitutionally unable to believe that all other writers didn't have it easy. For it was obvious that their words were hummingbirds, a bright whir of them over the typewriter, seeking only a landing strip. She alone stared at the white paper.

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Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

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Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

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I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

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Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

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As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

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It is easier to find a travelling companion than to get rid of one.

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You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

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People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

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I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

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One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

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I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

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The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

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It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

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When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

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