"The sharing of food is the basis of social life."

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Source : Laurie Colwin (2012). “Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen”, p.14, Penguin UK

Laurie Colwin

#Social Quotes #Bases Quotes

“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
“In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.”

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“I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions ofpeople and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannotconnect with them in my normal, everyday life.”

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“As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.”
“Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.”
“I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.”
“No one chooses to raise children alone.”
“Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, meaning people who themselves start out as painters, musicians, dancers, and who open a cafÃ©, a bar, a restaurant, or even a co-op art gallery - they unintentionally develop the kinds of attractions that bring the middle class with some kind of cultural ambition.”

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