"When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Long Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Life Is Hard Quotes

“I overthink a lot of things.”
“The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example.”
“Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.”
“If you are called as a missionaryâ€”a â€œsent-out oneâ€â€”then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand Godâ€™s loveâ€”a love that never diesâ€”through you.”
“The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?”
“We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.”

Source : "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.”
“Ooh..I want one" - Bex They're not puppies." -Cammie”

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