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> [Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/once-learnt-this-business-of-cooking-was-to-prove-an-ever-growing/)

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## More by Rose Macaulay

> [It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/it-wasn-t-really-touching-to-be-young-it-was-touching-not-to-be-young/)

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> [Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/cruelty-was-the-devil-and-most-people-were-in-one-way-or-another/)

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> [To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/to-be-prejudiced-is-the-privilege-of-the-thinking-human-being-the/)

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> [Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/publishers-of-course-have-you-altogether-in-their-grip-if-they-say/)

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> [The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/the-great-and-recurrent-question-about-abroad-is-is-it-worth-the/)

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> [Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/parents-are-untamed-excessive-potentially-troublesome-creatures/)

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> [Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/life-for-all-its-agonies-is-exciting-and-beautiful-amusing-and-artful/)

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> [You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/you-point-out-that-war-is-only-a-symptom-of-the-whole-horrid-business/)

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> [I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/i-seldom-meet-actors-they-are-to-me-bright-strange-fishes-swimming-in/)

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> [Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/giving-is-not-at-all-interesting-but-receiving-is-there-is-no-doubt/)

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> [All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/all-sorts-of-articles-and-letters-appear-in-the-papers-about-women/)

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> [Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/here-is-one-of-the-points-about-this-planet-which-should-be/)

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> [Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/once-learnt-this-business-of-cooking-was-to-prove-an-ever-growing/)

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> [Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/decades-have-a-delusive-edge-to-them-they-are-not-of-course-really/)

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> [“The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/the-superior-thing-in-this-as-in-other-departments-of-life-was-to-be/)

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