Cyra McFadden quotes
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“I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.”
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“Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.”
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“One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.”
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“I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.”
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“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
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“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”
Source : "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.
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“Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.”
Source : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2014). “Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.”
Source : 'Songs and Other Poems' (2nd ed., 1664) pt. 1 'The Mad Lover'
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“The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.”
Source : 'La Coupe et les lévres'
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