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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

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Whenever I get married I start buying
Gourmet Magazine
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

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No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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I love children --- especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

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