"Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

Peg Bracken

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“What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.”
“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
“As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.”

Source : "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2006.
“I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.”

Source : Albert Hofmann (1983). “LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science”, J P Tarcher
“I have so many messy moments.”
“You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.”
“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.”

Source : "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.
“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

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