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  • #1
    Peter Mayle
    “Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”
    Peter Mayle

  • #2
    Peter Mayle
    “Best advice I've ever received: Finish.”
    Peter Mayle

  • #3
    Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
    Julia Child

  • #4
    Frances Mayes
    “Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
    Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

  • #5
    Julia Child
    “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
    Julia Child

  • #6
    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    Julia Child

  • #7
    Julia Child
    “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
    Julia Child

  • #8
    Julia Child
    “I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
    Julia Child

  • #9
    Julia Child
    “How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
    Julia Child

  • #10
    Julia Child
    “This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!”
    Julia Child, My Life in France

  • #11
    Alice Waters
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any -”
    Alice Waters

  • #12
    Julia Child
    “Life itself is the proper binge.”
    Julia Child

  • #13
    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    Ruth Reichl

  • #14
    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  • #15
    Carlos Castaneda
    “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
    Carlos Castaneda

  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

  • #17
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

  • #18
    Scarlett Dawn
    “Sometimes, the best results come from the worst ideas. - Ezra”
    Scarlett Dawn, King Hall

  • #19
    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #22
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #23
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #24
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #25
    Italo Calvino
    “What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
    Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

  • #26
    Eileen Cook
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you do something embarrassing like fall down the stairs in front of a group of people, you are required to act like you are fine, even if you aren't. Your arm could have a bone jutting out, and you would still try to laugh it off as if everything were hunky dory. This compound fracture? It's nothing! I like to let my bones out of my body once in a while for fresh air. It's good for them.
    Eileen Cook, The Education of Hailey Kendrick

  • #27
    She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling
    “She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
    Ed Lynskey, Fur the Win

  • #28
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #29
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #30
    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose



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