"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

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“Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.”
“I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.”

Source : "Architect Philip Johnson Dies at 98". www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2005.
“Management is not a science, it is an art.”
“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media
“Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.”
“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.24, Digital Puritan Press
“There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.”
“Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form.... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and add millions of new donors to his mailing list.”

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