"I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes."

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Jamaica Kincaid

#Thinking Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Dishes Quotes

“Actors have no color. That's the art form.”
“The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.”
“He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
“Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.”

Source : Jennifer Rosen (2005). “Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration and Education by America's Wittiest Wine Critic”, p.268
“I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.”
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourselfâ€”and there isnâ€™t one.”

Source : "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.
“Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.”
“Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.”

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