"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."

-- James Agee

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“For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.”

Source : "Wolfgang Puck: 'Cooking is like painting'". Interview with Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.
“If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?”
“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group
“I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.”
“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”
“The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.”
“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”

Source : Sir Thomas Browne (1716). “Christian Morals”, p.10
“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.”

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