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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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Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
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On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
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It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.
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People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.
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When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.
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Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents — we didn't rear them — and yet we do.
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But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
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If the author is so interested in Science, why doesn't she take a course in it?
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Kitchens were different then, too — not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.
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When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.
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The McKinleyville First Presbyterian had turned into a mortuary, and my first thought was, How could they tell?
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Some women, it is said, like to cook.This book is not for them.This book is for those of us who hate to, who have learned, through hard experience, that some activities become no less painful through repetition: childbearing, paying taxes, cooking. This book is for those of us who want to fold our big dishwater hands around a dry Martini instead of a wet flounder, come the end of a long day.
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There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet — so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.
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Of pepper:
Always be sure it's coarse-ground, because a lot of people feel that anything that's peppered should look as though it had been fished out of a gravel pit.
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Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
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Even small quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.
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'Let's eat out.' Those are the three little words every woman wants to hear.
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On how to cook Skid Road Stroganoff:
Add the flour, salt, paprika, and mushrooms, stir, and let it cook five minutes while you light a cigarette and stare sullenly at the sink.
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A fellow had to chase you till you caught him. Everyone knew that.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Peg Bracken
Born:
February 25, 1918
Died:
October 20, 2007
(aged 89)
Bio:
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken was an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel.
Known for:
The I hate to cook book (1960)
The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book (1986)
On getting old for the first time (1996)
The I Hate to Housekeep Book (1962)
I Didn't Come Here to Argue (1969)
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