Cyra McFadden famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
-- Cyra McFadden -
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.
-- Cyra McFadden -
One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.
-- Cyra McFadden -
I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.
-- Cyra McFadden
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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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