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Laurie Colwin Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

Topics

Daily Great Culture People Eat Just

I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.

Life People World Action Feel You

Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.

Family Car School Mom Listening

I always knew I was going to be a mommy, and because I came from a family of three kids, I always assumed I would have three!

Jessie James Decker

Family Three Always Going Kids Knew

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

Believe Weird Bag Physics Possible

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Life Better You Village Now Bigger

I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.

Mother Car School Child Baby Care

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

Women Down Sometimes Southern Get

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

Love Time Myself I Am Time Flies

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

Life More Social Social Life Would

Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

Book Short Meaning Long Write Print

I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.

Practice Me Career Worst Right Kid

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg

Government Fight War Bank Jewish

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