"And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends."

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Laurie Colwin

#Talking Quotes #Eating Quotes

“[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.”
“I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.”
“The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.”
“Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”
“A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale”
“No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.”
“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. â€¦ The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”
“The less of the World, the freer you live.”

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