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• Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half,…
• Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz…
• The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
• "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him…
• The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving…
• Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
• Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
• I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except…
• It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the…
• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're…
• Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

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