Laurie Colwin Quotes

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

John Burdett

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Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.

Joel Salatin

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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard

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Better to be wrong than be boring.

Andre Geim

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If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

Stanislav Grof

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When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Misha Collins

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I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

Mitchel Resnick

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I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.

Luke Pasqualino

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I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.

Doug Liman

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I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

Bobby Orr

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Let's put Illinois back on the road to prosperity.

Bruce Rauner

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I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

Peter Gould

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