Julie Powell Quotes

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• If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't…
• It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.
• Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.
• Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
• The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
• So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit…
• But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.
• There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.
• Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your…
• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,…
• Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
• You can never have too much butter.
• I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
• Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her…
• Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift…

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