Quotes by Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin

[On television:] It’s made people moronic, it’s robbed people of their ability to think. It’s done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

Children

People

Thinking

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

Cooking

Giving

Simplest

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Food

July

Summer

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

Eating

Talking

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

Meals

Nice

People

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That’s a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, ‘If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.’

Food

Nice

Reading

Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures.

Dinner

Pleasure

Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

Lying

Men

People

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

Kitchen

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

Friendship

Memorable

Sisterhood

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Baby

Baseball

Bases

Believe

Chefs Cooking

Children

Coffee

College

Cooking

Cooking Classes

Culture

Dinner

Doe

Dream

Eating

Eggplant

Empty

Enlightened

Events

Fellowship

Food

Friendly

Friendship

Funny Inspirational

Giving

Glasses

Guilt

Hands

Happiness

Home

Home Cooking

Hot And Cold

House

Ice

July

Kind

Kitchen

Knows

Layers

Life Is

Life Is Hard

Long

Longing

Lying

Meals

Memorable

Men

Missing

Morning

Needs

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Quotes by Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin

[On television:] It’s made people moronic, it’s robbed people of their ability to think. It’s done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

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

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

Dinner alone is one of life’s pleasures.

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

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