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“...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”
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“Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.”
― The Art of Eating
― The Art of Eating
“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came to believe that since nobody else dared feed me as I wished to be fed, I must do it myself, and with as much aplomb as I could muster. Enough of hit-and-miss suppers of tinned soup and boxed biscuits and an occasional egg just because I had failed once more to rate an invitation!”
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